The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana marks the first ... She was, in a sense, competitive with Santa Claus [or] Father Christmas. Easter is a bigger occasion in Italy than Christmas is, so ...

in league with a certain White Witch, that it would be always winter but never Christmas. As resistance to the tyranny grew, Old Father Christmas became the symbol of “the good old days,” a ...

Robert Eggers built a career on biblically accurate representations of things that would be terrible to live through: getting ...

It imagines a nightmarish mass-incarceration scenario put in motion by a Christmas witch seeking revenge on ... to the glaringly buff Father Christmas played by Simmons. It’s as if Callum ...

Its central character, the demonic Art the Clown, dresses as Father Christmas while slashing through ... Eggers won a fervent following with “The Witch” in 2015. The period creepfest cleared ...