{"id":9744,"date":"2016-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yollacalls.com\/temp\/winter-heroes\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:02:22","slug":"winter-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/winter-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Heroes: Call abroad to friends to know more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting from the late November here comes the time of holidays, presents, sparkles everywhere and champagne\/mulled wine all the time. And as shops and streets are turning into Christmas mode extremely fast, we start seeing Santa\u2019s traces all around.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n        <ul class=\"article__apps\">\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/itunes-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-app-store.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/android-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-google-play.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item web\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/en\/account\/?utm_source=blog-web\" target=\"_blank\">Join Yolla and start saving on calls<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, on the 18th of November, probably one of the most famous Russian characters &#8211; Ded Moroz &#8211; celebrates his birthday! Let\u2019s leave alone Santa Claus who is famous all over the world for a minute (although we bet we can surprise you with his story as well). Each country has its own winter hero. Isn\u2019t a birthday of one of them a great occasion to get to know some other snowy guys?<\/p>\n<h2>Ded Moroz<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birthday boy, Grandfather Frost, in Russia is called <strong>Ded Moroz<\/strong>. He\u2019s a Russian version of Santa Claus with his own charm and charisma. No one knows how old he is. Since the pagan times people used to believe in a god of cold called Treskun who gave presents to children that behaved well, was empowered to melt ice and performed some other magic. Maybe he\u2019s the prototype of all the Clauses worldwide!<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And his birthday means that winter has come as close as possible &#8211; that\u2019s why we\u2019ve decided to shed some light on other icy characters as well. Anyway, he comes each year with his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow Girl), plays with children and gives sweets and presents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-russia\">cheap calls to Russia<\/a> to your international friends to learn about Ded Moroz from them!<\/p>\n<h2>Mikulas\/Miklav\u017e from Czech Republic<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This character comes to children in Czech Republic each year in the beginning of December. He has two companions &#8211; Angel and Devil &#8211; who decide whether a child has behaved good or bad and therefore deserves sweets or potatoes (that\u2019s right, potatoes).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-czech-republic\">cheap calls to Czech Republic<\/a> to your international friends to learn about Mikulas from them!<\/p>\n<h2>La Befana from Italy<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Probably, the only woman among characters of New Year season is an Italian fairy <strong>La Befana<\/strong>. She goes from home to home on the night of 6th of January, looks like an old lady with large teeth wearing black dresses. She\u2019s carrying two bags full of presents and coal. People believe she\u2019s travelling using stars!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-italy\">cheap calls to Italy<\/a> to your international friends to learn about La Befana from them!<\/p>\n<h2>J\u00f3lasveinarnir from\u00a0Iceland<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jj\u00f3lasveinarnir<\/strong> have nothing to do with Santa Claus or anyone else in the world connected to Christmas and New Year. They are 13 gnomes from Iceland, children of mother Gr\u00fdla and father Leppal\u00fa\u00f0i, which are the scariest\u00a0characters of Christmas. Legend says these gnomes go down from mountains on the 12th of December and spend two weeks visiting children, giving presents and eating families\u2019 food (which is by the way illegal). You should know that some people believe it\u2019s their mother who made <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull erupt a couple of years ago. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-iceland\">cheap calls to Iceland<\/a> to your international friends to learn about J\u00f3lasveinarnir from them!<\/p>\n<h2>Shen Dan Lao Ren from China<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In China they call a guy bringing presents on New Year\u2019s Eve <strong>Shen Dan Lao Ren<\/strong>. He\u2019s probably the busiest of our heroes, as there are a lot of children in China. He\u2019s supposed to go from child to child and give them envelopes with money (nice, right?). He wears red clothes and travels on a donkey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-%D1%81hina\">cheap calls to China<\/a> to your international friends to learn about Shen Dan Lao Ren from them!<\/p>\n<h2>Jouluvana from Estonia<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the last but not the least, our very own national hero &#8211; <strong>Jouluvana<\/strong> who is Estonian version of Santa Claus. He looks very similar to his older brother, Finnish Joulupukki, which literally means \u201cChristmas goat\u201d. He has come to us from Norse mythology and used to accompany Thor on the Wild Hunt sporting tight red leather pants and a matching coat. Later this was changed to warm red robes trimmed with a band of blue near the fur. But unlike their American relative Joulupukki and Jouluvana travel with non-flying reindeer, enter the house through the door and ask kids to sing Christmas songs or recite poems in exchange for presents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip:\u00a0<\/strong>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/rates\/calls-to-estonia\">cheap calls to Estonia<\/a> to your international friends to learn about Jouluvana from them!<\/p>\n<h2>Santa Claus<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you ready for the biggest exposure of the century? We are sorry to say that but <strong>Santa Claus<\/strong> is not the one he pretends to be. His story began in 1881 from Clement Clark Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Twas the Night Before Christmas&#8221;. It was the first time in modern history when someone mentioned Saint Nicolaus as a man giving presents before Christmas. However, he wouldn\u2019t become this famous and popular if not for&#8230;Coca-Cola. Due to some legal issues Coca-Cola had to stop its brand positioning as a drink for children. Therefore, they were forced to create a character<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to become a connection<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between children and Coca-Cola. The choice fell on Santa Claus.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children\u2019s hero was drawn after a neighbour of a company\u2019s designer and is nothing but the greatest marketing campaign of all time. Nowadays no one can disconnect Santa Claus from Coca-Cola and, consequently, Coke from Christmas (Just for the record, half of our team was devastated by this information. Sorry if you\u2019re feeling bad too).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n        <ul class=\"article__apps\">\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/itunes-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-app-store.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/android-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-google-play.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item web\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/en\/account\/?utm_source=blog-web\" target=\"_blank\">Join Yolla and start saving on calls<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro tip: <\/strong>Call abroad to your friends in USA, Canada, Australia or any other country that has Santa Claus as their Winter Here and tell them about this discovery!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many more New Year characters around the world. To learn more you just need to call abroad to your friends &#8211; using <strong>Yolla<\/strong>, of course &#8211; and ask them about their traditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Who knows, maybe the more heroes you know, the more presents you may get on New Year\u2019s eve!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n        <ul class=\"article__apps\">\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/itunes-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-app-store.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/android-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-google-play.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item web\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/en\/account\/?utm_source=blog-web\" target=\"_blank\">Join Yolla and start saving on calls<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from the late November here comes the time of holidays, presents, sparkles everywhere and champagne\/mulled wine all the time. 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