Christmas gift-bringer the leader of the Wild Hunt at the time of Yule. Santa Claus's reindeer has also been compared to Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse of Odin in Norse mythology. Jacob Grimm ("Deutsche Mythologie") traces the threatening or scary companions of Saint Nicholas (such as the Krampus of the Austro-Bavarian dialect region) to Christianized versions of house-spirits (kobolds, elves). After Christianization, the benign mid-winter gift-bringer was associated with the 4th-century Christian Saint Nicholas of Myra. This association took place mainly in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire, including German-speaking Europe, the Low Countries, the Czech lands, Hungary and Slovenia. The basis
A Man Called Horse (film) A Man Called Horse (film) A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American-Mexican Western film starring Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein. It is based on the short story "A Man Called Horse" by the Western writer Dorothy M. Johnson, first published in 1950 in "Collier's" magazine and again in 1968 in Johnson's book "Indian Country". The basic story was used in a 1958 episode of the TV show "Wagon Train" titled "A Man Called Horse". Partially spoken in Sioux, the film tells the story of an English aristocrat who is captured by the Sioux people. English aristocrat John