The original Santa Claus is an amalgam of several cultures who happens to bear an interesting resemblance to a Norse/Germanic deity. The first Santa didn't bring toys or gifts. He was given gifts in wooden shoes to appease him and to keep him from taking naughty children and stuffing them in his sack. I don't remember if Black Peter was green; but I know he wasn't the jolly old elf we see santa as today.

No. Edit: This answer is correct. Santa Claus was never green.

back in the day santa was actually a forest spirit of germany.Because he was a forest spirit he as associated with green, and this idea was brought over with the christmas tree with prince albert (queen victoria's husband and cousin). "santa" was called St. Nicolas, and some of his traditions are still carried on in germany, for example children put out a boot on the day before christmas eve and if they've been good then st. nicolas will fill them with sweets and small gifts, however i they have been bad he will fill them with cola, this is were the westernised theory of coal in stocking for bad behaivior comes from.

Yes he was originally green and brown because he was a forest deity and the colours green and brown were associated with him. Coca Cola have put a lot if money into advertising him as red and so it became known in popular culture in america that he wears red and white the colours of coca cola

no it has never been green.

No, it has always been brown due to the caramel used since the original formula. Coke has, however, been bottled in green glass bottle which perhaps gave rise to this rumour. http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

As far as I know it's always been red. But I do know that Father Christmas used wear a green suit, I think it has something to do with Coke commercialising Christmas so much that he now wears red.

No, but I heard that father christmas used to wear green, but it was changed to red when the coca cola adverts altered it cus it looked better... not entirely sure if it's true but I think so x

There are several places to find out the truth about this, here are a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus http://www.the-north-pole.com/history/ http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Original_Santa_Claus.htm http://www.christmasarchives.com/santa.html http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/santa-is-a-wildman/ This should give you some idea and perspective on what has really happened over the years and how Santa has evolved.

Oh, no! You mean to tell me that Santa Claus is not real? I hope you realize you're going to hell for that. That's blasphemy!

santa is a myth religions are myth god does not exist

Yes this is true.

Santa Claus is at least partly based on the folklore of Wodan, Old Man Thor, and Holda!!!!!! This is all to obvious when you study these deities. And, Betwixter's comments are correct about Norse/Germanic mythology and Black Peter.

Santa Claus is a merge of two different caracters! First called St Nicholas who was the 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra! What colour do bishops wear???? RED! Second caracter is named Odin dating back to the prechristian Germany. He is the one the others were telling you about and wore green. I believe that the tradition is based on St Nicholas, because he came first and was giving to the poor on 5th December on St Nicholas Feast Day!

Not true: From 1863-1886, Thomas Nast’s illustrations of Santa Claus appeared in Harper’s Weekly—including a scene with Santa giving gifts to Union soldiers. Not much has changed since the second half of the 19th century: Santa still gets pulled in a sleigh by flying reindeer, he still wears the big red suit and he still sneaks down chimneys to drop off presents. Contrary to popular belief, the Coca-Cola company did not invent the modern Santa. They did, however, learn how to use his image to get parents to buy soda during winter.

Sounds plausable to me! So have a Merry Coca-Christmas! ;-)

Yes. He hailed from my home planet. Greenburg Orionvilleton. He was as green as me. ;]

santa was originally green.to go with the colour scheme green trees,holly ecetra ecetra.then coca cola changed it to go with their colour scheme.but now people get white, black trees so they dont use green alot.

Numerous magazine covers prior to Coca-Colas ad campaigh had old St. Nick in his recognizable red with white trim outfit. Coca-cola did see a good thing when it was stuffed into their corprate mugs and spent large funds making the red and white iconic outfit tie into their colors.

Santa Claus as Saint Nicholas is green, as Odin is red, what we have today is a mix of both.

plz.search for The changing image of santa claus -associated content....in Google The image we now have of Santa was created by Coca Cola's artist Haddon Sundblom in advertising campaigns that began in 1931 and ran for three decades. The aim of the campaign was to convince people that Coke was a drink for all seasons, since most people at the time thought of it only as a summer beverage. Coca Cola spread throughout the globe taking Sundblom's image of Santa with it. Sundblom based his images partly on the work of an American Civil War cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who drew pictures of Santa for Harper's Weekly over two decades, from 1862 onwards. Nast's image of Santa evolved over those years, beginning with a skinny elf-like character wearing a tan coat, to a larger character wearing red, and it was this image that Sundblom adopted. Nast was also the first to locate Santa at the North Pole. The belief that many people have, that the suit was changed to red by Coca Cola is untrue, as Nast had already changed the colour before the 20th century began, but undoubtedly the red image was chosen because the red matched Coca Cola's logo.

yes,he was green and from turkey

please read the article written by Lin Edward ; Dec.17,2008 . " The Changing Images Of Santa Claus -Associated content."

it is true that santa was green. but he was skinny he wore green clothes and lived in a forest in germany the reason he turned red is because he slayed raindeer got blood all over him and gave the raindeer corpses to the poor as gifts!!!!!!!!! his real name is steven paxman