Belsnickle in Pennsylvania: Ralph D. Dunkelberger, Christmas in Pennsylvania, 1959
Illustration by Ralph D. Dunkelberger for Alfred Shoemaker’s Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study.
This illustration by Ralph D. Dunkelberger for Alfred Shoemaker’s Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study (1959) was, in effect, a police sketch of the various descriptions provided of Belsnickle. Belsnickle, derived from Germany’s Pelznickel, eventually became better known as Kriss Kringle.