Chicago Sun-Times Bebunks Santa Myth

It had to happen.

According to the folklorists, Wiccans and other neo-pagans who've been talking to Cathleen Falsani, of the Chicago Sun-Times, Santa began as a woman -- Holda, the pagan Teutonic goddess of good fortune.

The "experts" told Fasani that Frau Holda has been sliding down chimneys, giving gifts to good children and traveling via an airborn cart since before the birth of Christ.

Ed. notes that this just goes to show you how reporters and their editors will print the "expert" opinions of anyone who can fit their tale into the seasonal story cycle, especially if it can be made to appeal to the demographic "target market" of the moment.

Coming up: Soothsayers convince Falsani that Torquemada actually invented Valentine's Day by his tradition of cutting out victims' hearts and sending them to friends every February.