Not canon? It’s an eyewitness account! How can you discount that!?!?!?
And as for Nicholas of Myra, the only things we can say about him with any certainty is that he lived and he had some sort of leadership in early Christian church. As far as we know, he could have been an elf who chose to live among humans.
This gave me a flashback (or is it “a memory”?) of childhood. I was one of seven children, and on Christmas morning there were seven huge piles of presents in the room with the Christmas tree. (I don’t know how my parents could afford it.)
Almost certainly a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.