Contrary to expectations, the idyllic town of Dasher, nestled in the foothills of Georgia's Appalachians, is not named after one of Santa’s reindeer but after the Daescher family, who settled on ...

The original eight reindeer – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen – first appeared in the 1823 poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas, more commonly known as ’Twas the ...

Santa’s reindeer — Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen and Rudolph — received clearance to fly to Pennsylvania from Dr. Sarah Coburn, Alaska’s state veterinarian.