Since then, they've spread all through popular culture – Christmas elves are almost always diminutive little creatures dressed in green with pointy hats, and they've appeared widely in books, TV shows, and films.Ĭhristmas elves feature strongly in Elf (2003), which starred Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human who clambered into Santa's sack of presents as a baby and was raised at the North Pole among the elves. Little Women author Louisa May Alcott wrote a book called Christmas Elves in 1852 that was never actually published, while the American woman's magazine Godey's Lady Book popularised the idea of Santa's workshop with a cover in 1873 that showed Santa surrounded by elves busy creating toys. Santa Claus himself was originally referred to as an 'elf' in the poem 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (more popularly known as 'T'was The Night Before Christmas') by Clement Clarke Moore in 1823, but Christmas elves didn't start properly appearing in stories until the mid-to-late Nineteenth century.

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