#arson goat

[thenightetc]

The goat is still standing (livestream!) so it seems that any bird-related damage was minor. (And perhaps an intentional feature of this year's goat?)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

A neighbor has two of these on their porch, and on the one hand, I wanna leave a box of matches with a bow. On the other, I don't want to freak them out.

Yesterday I went to IKEA and bought a small straw goat, since we are in temporary accommodation over Christmas and it would be nice to have something small and cheerful.

I come downstairs this morning to find THIS

Thanks, housemate

[wesleyscreaming]

(i burn for certain traditions)

[has-the-gavle-goat-burned-yet]

Shoutout to the security guard I just saw walking around the goat’s enclosure on the stream. He looked cold though…someone should burn the goat so he can warm up.

Do you think they vet the security guards like “do you promise to not set the goat on fire? Do you promise to not help anyone else set the goat on fire?”

Anon you are so right all goat security guards deserve a bonfire, as a treat ❤️

[left-hand-of-dorkness]

my approach would be to burn the gävlebocken and then scatter 300 pounds of birdseed around the perimeter, everybody wins

have we considered longbows and lighted arrows

[sweaterkittensahoy]

YES FEAST YES

Holy shit there are so many birds

[aidoneira]

William visits the goat 🥰

[baddywronglegs]

I'm seeing so many posts about the Gävle Goat on Tumblr and I'm new here,

What does "Blaze" do?

[thornescratch]

It's going to be hilarious when we find out that Nicklas Backstrom only said he was stepping away from hockey because he wanted to concentrate fully on destroying the 2023 Gavle Goat.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

FUN!!

since the gävlebocken didn't survive (bad luck) or get burned (good luck), i'm taking 'eaten by jackdaws' to mean 'secret third thing'

[hurlumerlu]

I'm sorry.

[asomaton]

As a Swede I’m naturally invested in the Gävle goat and I’m NOT on the torchers side. While quite cool (FIRE!) that tradition started with greasers in rhetoric 60’s wanting to have some fun and wanton destruction with the local shop-corporations big commercial Christmas goat from 1966.

While the Christmas goat in itself IS old it was never built big and no, it was never burnt for any traditional reasons.

In ye olden times the goat came with gifts. Any connections to Krampus? Hard to tell really. Probably? Anyways. The goat is Gävle has burned many times since the 60s and that is how a tradition is formed. Last year they moved it to a more densely populated area, meaning that IF you torched it you would be charged with arson.

THIS year it hasn’t been torched (yet) BUT something else happened. Jackdaws! The odd weather during the summer left short hay with lots of kernels left. The Jackdaws has eaten it to the bone!

This is lovely! A sacrifice to nature! If not fire then smart western jackdaw. I wish you all a real Christmas feast.

[nicknewboul]

Arsonist

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Honestly, this has been my favorite year with the goat just for the adventure of it all.

The goat has made it to the 26th!!

Barely.

[authorbettyadams]

The Gävle Goat

Official 2023 Youtube Stream The birds are Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) and the occasional duck. They show up promptly at first light (usually around 8:25-8:20 am local time, you can see the time in the upper-left hand corner of the stream) and leave after 10-20 minutes. The straw used to make the goat was unusually full of seeds this year. 

In Honor of The Eaten

Oh the guards were guarding grumbly,

And the birds were flocking hungrily,

And it seems: that the flames will fail to be,

Sounds: like the car won't ram you see,

Looks: like the end of the Goat will be,

Food. For. Birds.

It seems: that security can't prevent.

Looks: that the fence's of no event.

Seems: Gävle Goat will be food for birbs!

(To the tune of "A Rather Blustery Day")

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Then go and burn it yourself, don't wait for other people to burn the establishment down.

do you honestly think that I tumblr user polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup have swedish airplane tickets money. because I don’t.