Now there’s Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blixzen, Rudolph, Flossie, Glossie, Racer, Pacer, Fearless, Peerless, Ready, Steady, Feckless, Speckless, Steven, Fluffy, Horace, Chantel, Skippy, Rainbow, Patches, Montel, and ???
I mentioned a few alternate reindeer in my previous post “Santa’s Reindeer“, like the South Park rescue team and the reindeer in L. Frank Baum’s book. Here I’ll go into more detail about those other less known reindeer. We all know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blixzen, and Rudolph, but who were the others? Like, Robbie the Reindeer is the son of Rudolph and appeared in two BBC specials.
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, now dash away, dash away all!
Reindeer and caribou are the same animal (Rangifer tarandus) and are a member of the deer family. In Europe, they are called reindeer, in the United States, the wild ones are called caribou while the domesticated ones are reindeer.
There are three things that I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin – Linus
Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark half of the year, winter. This falls about halfway between the autumn equinox and winter solstice. It is one of the four quarter days associated with Gaelic festivals along with Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasa. First mentioned in the earliest Irish literature, from the 9th century, and is associated with many important events in Irish mythology.
