#pieten

[overwijs]

“Milou, dan moeten we wel een TikTokje opnemen. Ik heb al een makkelijk dansje gevonden. Die kunnen wij!”

Zo geschiedde. Maarrr… Whoops, daar ging de mijter. Probeer dan nog maar met een serieus gezicht je dansje te doen.

Ik denk dat van dansjes doen, ik mijn beroep niet ga maken. 😉

[atevegter]

3120 Sinterklaas

Zondagavond wordt er plotseling aan de deur geklopt. Wij denken nog, wie zou dat zijn? ’t Is een vreemdeling zeker, die verdwaald is misschien. Ik zal eens even vragen naar zijn naam. Sint Nicolaas zegt hij, maar zeg maar Sint hoor, dat vinden de mensen gemakkelijk. Je kent hem wel met zijn witte baard en een paard en hij is meestal lang van postuur, maar soms ook onverwacht klein. Hij draagt…

[peterpauldoodkorte]

Sinterklaasfeest

het sinterklaasfeestfeest vol vreugdegezelligheid en preten het allermeestsint en zijn pietenvol energie en krachtbrengen zij cadeautjes in de donkere nachtde stoomboot vaart over de digitale zeemet pakjes voor iederniemand staat stilvernieuwd voortaanblijft het feest bestaanin de schoenengeen oranje wortel maar een appde moderne tijdhet gaat lekker rapde sint op zijn tabletleest verlanglijstjes…

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

MENSEN, behalve voor de tweede kamer morgen kan je ook op sinterklaasjournaal.nl stemmen op een referendum van Sinterklaas over de vraag of pieten ook hun schoen mogen zetten

[sprolden]

om even oernederlands te zijn op main. ik vind het zo zonde dat klederdracht verloren gaat in nederland en dat er ook gewoon vrijwel niks wordt gedaan om het in stand te houden???? de jongste dragers zijn meestal al de middelbare leeftijd voorbij dus over een jaar of 20-40 is het wss gewoon weg. en dit komt gwn voort uit mn algemene passie voor modegeschiedenis dus ik ben wss de enige die dit iets boeit lol maar ik vind het gewoon zo zonde is want kleding is juist vaak iets dat heel veel inzicht biedt in de geschiedenis van een land wat betreft de grondstoffen, technieken en het dagelijks leven van de gemiddelde mens en het verdwijnt waar we bij staan! een traditie die bestaat sinds de 16e eeuw!!! iemand kom klederdracht met mij redden

[dwalendinhetniets]

Is Hoofdpiet aan het flirten met Diewertje Blok???

[an-egghead]

Now that Saint Nicolas Day is being celebrated on the QSMP, I'd like to tell some things about how I usually celebrate it! (By the way i hope this post cuts off I don't know how to do that, someone help)

Saint Nicolas Day is a holiday celebrated mostly in Europe (but I bet other places as well). Frankly, I don't know that much about how other countries celebrate, so I'll be talking mostly about the Netherlands, but I reckon some of it applies to other regions as well.

The holiday is called Sinterklaas in the Netherlands (short for Sint Nicolaas), and we celebrate it on either the 5th or the 6th. The evening of the 5th is called pakjesavond (presents eve) and it's usually when people come together and get gifts for eachother, christmas style.

Sinterklaas is very much alike to Santa Claus, in the sense that children have no idea that their family is buying the presents.

Sinterklaas is a holiday for kids above anything, and it's not uncommon for people to stop celebrating it when all the kids in their family know "het geheim van Sinterklaas" (the secret of Sinterklaas). Kids usually find out around 3rd or 4th grade, sometimes earlier, sometimes later, but everyone knows by the time they reach 7th grade because that's secondary school and also kids are bad at keeping secrets.

By the way, Sinterklaas, Santa Claus, they're basically the same person. We celebrate both a lot of the time.

So, somewhere in november, Sinterklaas and his Pieten (Piet is a common Dutch name, all the Pieten are named Piet. It's a whole thing. They work for/with Sinterklaas and there's some discussion about that but I think they're pals) leave on the boat from Spain with all the presents.

Around this same "het Sinterklaasjournaal" starts (the news but all about Sinterklaas). They make up little stories each year about what happens with Sinterklaas and the Pieten, and elementary schoolers watch this religiously (all you need to know is "Het Sinterklaas journaal, met Dieuwertje Blok"). These things change each season. Sometimes it's useful stuff, like making up special rocks the Pieten can use to open doors to bring presents, as a general explanation as to how they can get in and parents don't contradict each other.

In the past though, they would enter through the chimney, but not many people have chimney's anymore.

Other times it's shit like "We think Sinterklaas and the Pieten have fucking crashed and drowned". They've done this more than once.

Then after like a week or so they arrive in the land. Legit every city picks a day and has an "intocht". I have no idea how to translate this, but it's basically a parade with Sinterklaas and the Pieten. It's just random people though. I played Piet once and it was awesome. I put on Heelys and kids loved it.

During the Intocht kids get stand at the sides with their family and hold open bags. The Pieten put all sorts of sweets in there, but mostly pepernoten en kruidnoten (which are often also called pepernoten. I don't make the rules). You're all missing out by the way, kruidnoten are the absolute best.

After Sinterklaas has arrived in the country, kids get to put one of their shoes at the chimney or another designated place every night, usually with a piece of vegetable in it (commonly a carrot) and then they get a very tiny present in the morning.

The carrot is for Sinterklaas's horse, I'll get to the horse in a bit.

Then the 5th is pakjesavond, and the 6th it's Sinterklaas's birthday, so he and the Pieten go home again. Most people celebrate pakjesavond the 5th nowadays, but in the past it would be celebrated the morning of the 6th. People then said Sinterklaas dropped off all the presents in the night. All the kids used to get the day off from school as well the 6th, but that was a WHILE ago. Now, basically all the festivities are on the 5th, and elementary schools make a fun day out of it.

Then they all leave again and we put the christmas trees up within like 2 days.

SO, about Sinterklaas's horse. It used to be (and in many local places, still is) a white horse named Amerigo, but on the Sinterklaasjournaal they said that horse was retiring. Fine. I guess. Now it's "O Zo Snel" (O So Fast). Yes it's a dumb name, but there's a Sinterklaas-song that says "op zijn paardje, o zo snel" (on his horse, o so fast), so that's where they got it from. THE SONG DID NOT INTEND FOR IT TO BE A NAME I AM FUMING

Anyway, I think that's it. I'm very glad the qsmp is talking about it, really pleasantly surprised. Also if you made it this far I'm honestly impressed. This took me like an hour to type out not even kidding.

[l5-gbsdehorizon]

Hij is er!

Welkom Sint en Pieten!

❤️

[tragedykery]

I have a lot gripes with dutch history education in general but some of this has to be wilful ignorance. you can’t be an adult and seriously look back on the """"golden age"""" as something good. you can’t seriously think the colonisation we committed is anything but horrific. “well we gave them better education and infrastructure” “well at least we weren’t as bad as the british” what if I killed you. I don’t know how to get it through to you that the only amount of colonialism that’s acceptable is none! zero! nothing!

“it was so long ago–” one, it wasn’t. two, it doesn’t matter shit how long ago it was when we as dutch people still benefit from it and the people we colonised are still affected negatively by it.

also, the amount of people who think things like racism and police brutality aren’t problems or don’t even exist here??? no amount of pointing and laughing at the united states and diverting the attention is going to make the netherlands some kind of perfect paradise. pretending problems don’t exist doesn’t magically make them go away.

and blackface being “part of our traditions” doesn’t make it “okay” holy shit! it just makes them racist traditions! and you can say “the children don’t care”—yeah exactly. kids don’t care if the pieten are roetveegpieten or ones with full blackface. but how about black kids? don’t they deserve to enjoy sinterklaas? don’t they deserve to be children too?

and the sheer amount of people who believe this shit too! I fucking hate you all

[ltwilliammowett]

Sinterklaas

I have already told you about Nicklaus, but there is another very interesting aspect that concerns the Netherlands in particular.

In the 4th century after his death, the veneration of St. Nicholas spread rapidly to southern Italy, the Mediterranean region and then to the port cities on the Atlantic and North Sea coasts.

Gablestone in Amsterdam's Sint-Nicolaassteeg (x)

In the 12th and 13th centuries, 23 Saint Nicholas churches were built in Holland, many of which are still standing today. Amsterdam made Nicholas its patron saint, and Rome declared 6 December, Nicholas' death anniversary, an official holiday. The great importance that Nicholas had for the Netherlands is probably due to the fact that Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and merchants. Traditionally, therefore, of the professions that have long underpinned the importance of the Netherlands worldwide. and so Saint Nicholas became the most important figure of the Christmas season - after the actual occasion of this festival, of course, the birth of Christ. In the Netherlands, Sint Nicolaas (Sinterklaas for short) is more important than Father Christmas (Kerstman). Experts are not yet in agreement as to whether St. Nicholas and Father Christmas are one and the same figure, or at least whether one is derived from the other.

Every year, Sinterklaas, accompanied by his helpers, the Zwarten Pieten (Black Peters), sails by ship from Spain - where, according to legend, he lives throughout the year - to the Dutch coast. On the last Saturday in November, he finally reaches the Dutch port cities by ship. Traditionally, he is greeted by those waiting with a song (a translation from Dutch):

The ship where does it come from?

The ship, where does it come from? from Spain! On board is St. Nich'laus. We are waiting very much. He sits high on horseback, the holy man. The flags are waving, the ship is docking. He rides ashore, he waves to us with dignity, The children in the Nuh gather around him. His coat is bright red, his beard is white, And the way he looks at us, I feel cold and hot. But Pieter, his black companion, is laughing. He has brought a huge sack with him. What do you think is in it? Presents? Of course! The rod for the one who has been naughty?

On this ship he brings the presents for the Dutch children. Equipped, of course, with the red book in which the good and bad deeds of the children are recorded - in the best St. Nicholas tradition.

Oh, and by the way, after the crossing in America, the Dutch put up a statue of the Sinterklass in Nieuw Amsterdam (New York today), to be more precise, to thank him for a safe passage. So no Christmas without seafaring. No seafaring without Christmas?

[dracothelizard]

“Schrijven?” vroeg Lucius. “Wacht even, jullie zoeken schrijvers?”

“Lucius!” riep Stede. “Wat is dit nou?”

Lucius haalde zijn schouders op. “Als zij een interessante vacature open hebben staan…” Hij glimlachte naar Hoofdpiet. “Misschien heb ik dan wel interesse om die te vullen…”

“Hoe is je handschrift?” vroeg Hoofdpiet.

“Fantastisch,” zei Lucius. “Kapitein Bonnet kan dat beamen.”

“Nou ja!” snoof Stede.

“Zijn handschrift is inderdaad geweldig,” zei Pete, die naast Lucius was komen staan. “Maar lieverd, ik denk niet dat de stoomboot wat voor jou is.”

“Hoezo niet?” Lucius gebaarde naar de Pieten. “Dit ziet er uit als een hele gezellige en vooral ongevaarlijke bemanning.”

“Dank je?” Hoofdpiet klonk wat verbaasd.

Pete fluisterde iets in Lucius z’n oor en Lucius fronste. “Wacht, de hele dag gedichten schrijven? Voor kinderen? Oké, nee, laat maar, haal m’n CV uit jullie systeem.”

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Mijn nieuwe WIP gaat fantastisch!

[ask-healthy-light]

TMI Tuesday: How was your Halloween?

Shh! It was calm, and uneventful.

Halloween isn't as big a thing where I live, unfortunately. Shops are more focused on December 5th, when Sinterklaas (translated: Saint Nicholas) comes by with ginger nuts, chocolate letters, and gifts, as well as a brief media frenzy over the Pieten (translated: Petes) that join him.

The last few years, my family hasn't really focused on either event, and we just build up towards Christmas instead. ^^

[pandaklas]

Wij gaan turnen. Klimmen en klauteren net zoals de pieten

[drakenklask2]

Sintkriebels bij de draakjes 😍

een verlanglijstje knippen en plakken, doorgeven aan de hulpSint, de hulpSint leest de brief door de buis voor aan de pieten en die pakken de juiste cadeautjes in voor dat kind. Echte helpers van de Sint!

[vlinderklas]

Vandaag mochten we Sint en zijn Pieten verwelkomen. We hebben genoten van deze dag...kijk maar.

[l5-gbsdehorizon]

Sint en Pieten, welkom terug!

Bedankt voor alles! ❤️