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Nowadays, the Hogfather is expected to travel in a sleigh pulled by hogs and every Hogswatchnight to bring gifts to all the children, or at least, those who believe in him this yields a worshipper range of most of the Discworld except for the Counterweight continent and the continent of Klatch. In the deep winters, people of old feared that spring might never again come, so they gave bloody sacrifice of hogs to the Hogfather.

The Hogfather is originally a winter god. For the book of the same name, see Hogfather for the television film adaptation, see Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather.