Is Father Christmas Coming Down the Chimney?

The chimney is like a portal into the building through which evil could enter and that needed to be protected. It seems like an odd connection as well to have them in the chimney quite often when we think of Father Christmas coming down the chimney, if anyone still has open fireplaces. The idea of spirits traveling through the air is a very old one. There's a danger that will be drafts with spirits traveling on that so we can be thinking of doors of windows of chimneys. And those are the areas where we tend to find solid, deep distributions of ritual protection in buildings.