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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Legendary sleigh-pulling flying reindeer A parade float with a model of Santa's reindeer and sleigh in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 2009 In traditional Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus ...
What are the names of Santa's reindeer? Santa's reindeer are named Dasher , Dancer , Prancer , Vixen , Cupid , Comet , Donner , Blitzen and, of course, Rudolph .
You know Rudolph, but how many reindeer does Santa have? Here's a complete list, including Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer created by Robert L. May. Rudolph is usually depicted as the ninth and youngest of Santa Claus's reindeer, using his luminous red nose to lead the reindeer team and guide Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. Though he initially receives ridicule for his nose as a fawn, the brightness of his ...
The Skeletal Reindeer were created by Doctor Finkelstein to act as the reindeer that pull Jack's sleigh, and are broken after the air force shoot down Jack's sleigh. In The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge , the Skeletal Reindeer are rebuilt when the sleigh arrives for Santa Claus to use after Oogie Boogie hijacks his sleigh.
While characters resembling Santa Claus have circulated throughout the world for centuries, the notion of a sleigh pulled by reindeer wouldn’t become prominent until the 19th century.
His Christmas image in the Harper's issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption "Santa Claussville, N.P." [34] A colour collection of Nast's pictures, published in 1869, had a poem also titled "Santa Claus and His Works" by George P. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus's ...
You might assume that the name reindeer came from the words rein and deer, especially if looking at familiar pictures of reindeer hitched up to Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve.