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The Great Lansing Elf Visit Of 1998
Author: Neal McNamara Source: Lansing City Pulse (MI)
Title: THE GREAT LANSING ELF VISIT OF 1998
For the purposes of this story, it would be important to point out that there's a difference between standard elves and Christmas elfs. Elves, according to Wikipedia, are fantastical creatures with roots in German folklore. Christmas elfs (do you see the difference in the spelling there?) specifically make toys, have pointy shoes and ears and wear shiny, red and green-colored clothes. One could assume that Christmas elfs were invented by some genius advertising executive back in 1930 so that Macy's and Sears could start making money from Jesus' birthday. But one would be wrong.
The Christmas elf race, however, shares lineage with the German fantasy elves, at least according to the Web site www.didyouknow.com. See, way back a long time ago, Scandinavian pagans thought that tiny elves guarded their homes and believed that if the little guys were mistreated, they would eat you or snap off one of your kids' legs. Later — around the 1800s (by the way, we're still getting our information from didyouknow.com) — Scandinavian writers started writing about the TRUE role of elves in society:
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| Should Look Deeper Into History | Dec 24th. at 1:56:47 pm EST
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
There's some thought, that the Alfar were the bunch, also known as Devas, or Vanyr, that took it on the lamb, after jumping off the Ocean of Milk Project, in the middle of the Great Month of Gemini. Circumstances sometimes conspire, and he settled for stealling that particular, rather obvious, attire.
Prisons have a disproportion of Type A Personalities. You have three types: A, those who make things happen; B, those who see what's happening; C, those who wonder what happened. Type C tend more to the Mad-House, but you don't get into Gaol, unless a Jury would reasonably believe, that you made something happen. That Lansing Elf might be worth something, if any would take the time.
To what extent, does the marketing of children's products, touch upon the past lives of Poets?
Arawn Graalrd
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