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How Santa came to recruit his elves

24 December 2024

5:30 PM

24 December 2024

5:30 PM

The Christmas elf is so familiar now that it could easily be the first character you think of when you hear the word ‘elf’ – outside of J. R. R. Tolkien’s works, that is.

The very recent Christmas custom of the ‘Elf on the Shelf’ has lately brought elves to particular prominence in the modern British Christmas.

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