As the song goes, “You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.” But do you recall how these reindeer came to be the ones pulling Santa’s sleigh? That’s ...

How many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh? It takes quite a few reindeer to pull a sleigh holding a large, rotund man and presents for almost an entire planet's worth of children. However, in 1902, L.

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen... And chances are, you're familiar with a certain crimson-snouted caribou who does Santa Claus an absolute solid one foggy Christmas night. “Rudolph ...

A certain well-known holiday song begins with, "You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen ..." If Jeff Goode's "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues" is to be ...

It’s been my habit, when faced with a question I cannot answer, to break into song. It happened once at a Harvard conference on narrative. Unable to think of a better story example, I began singing ...

The fictional character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created by Robert L. May, a Long Island, New York-born writer. May was born in 1905 and died in 1976. He was raised in a Jewish section of ...

A poem appeared anonymously 201 years ago this month in a newspaper in Troy, New York, telling of a jolly St. Nicholas with twinkling eyes, dimpled cheeks and a jelly-like belly, who transported gifts ...