Elves wear red and green outfits and have pointy ears.
He had no opinion about elves or candy canes.
Below the small band of Teutonic divinities were the elves of forest and field, the water-elves or nixes and spirits of house and home.
Santa's helpers are not only his elves, but also Mrs. Claus and his reindeer.
His work on The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies, left in MS. and incomplete (the remainder is in the Laing MSS., Edinburgh University library), was published (a hundred copies) in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott, and in the Bibliotheque de Carabas (Lang) there is a French translation.