Kriss Kringle: Kriss Kringle’s Christmas Tree, 1845
According to Shoemaker’s book, the name Christkindl was often mispronounced as Kriss Kringle.
In Pennsylvania, according to Shoemaker’s book, the name Christkindl was often mispronounced as Kriss Kringle and viewed as another name for Belsnickle. By 1845, the impression that Kriss Kringle was the Pennsylvania had become so well established that a book, Kriss Kringle’s Christmas Tree, was published about him.