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The Night Before Christmas has been an important part of American Christmas celebrations for over a century now. While everyone has heard of the poem and while most know at least its first lines, the origin of the poem is not so well-known, nor is the extent to which it has shaped our popular image of Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus, often realized. It was The Night Before Christmas that first gave St. Nicholas his reindeer and sleigh in which he journeyed over the housetops, and established an image of him as fat, jovial, and roly-poly. The man responsible for this great contribution to American folklore was a kindly, somewhat retiring scholar by the name of Clement Clarke Moore.
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