We get the conceit of Santa’s eight reindeer from the reindeer husbandry practiced by the indigenous people of Fennoscandia. In Siberia, the locals shave curlicues of meat from frozen reindeer steaks, which they eat raw …
December 6, 2017
This illustration, from 1821, is the first known depiction of Santa Claus being pulled by a reindeer.
Posted December 6, 2017
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