"Mrs. Claus is the wife of the man Santa Claus, the Christmas gift-bringer in North American and European Christmas tradition. She is known for making cookies with the elves and preparing toys with her husband Santa Claus.
Mrs. Santa Claus is mentioned by name in the pages of the Yale Literary Magazine in 1851, where the student author (whose name is given only as "A. B.") writes of the appearance of Santa Claus at a Christmas party:
- [I]n bounded that jolly, fat and funny old elf, Santa Claus. His
array was indescribably fantastic. He seemed to have done his best; and
we should think, had Mrs. Santa Claus to help him."~Wikipedia
Since 1889, Mrs. Claus has been generally depicted in media as a fairly heavy-set, kindly, white-haired elderly female baking cookies somewhere in the background of the Santa Claus mythos. She sometimes assists in toy production, and oversees Santa's elves.
Is there an actual "Mrs. Santa" somewhere back in the long ago? Who knows?
But I like to think so!
What do you think? Does Santa have a "Mrs.?" :)
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