#swedish christmas

[tofreezetime]

happy holidays

[ihni]

Merry Christmas everyone!

In Sweden, we celebrate on Christmas Eve: we watch classic old Disney shorts at 3 pm (a tradition since 1960), and then we start with food, and eat together, and then after dinner, SANTA shows up to deliver the presents (often when someone in the family have CONVENIENTLY gone out to buy the newspaper ... it's sad, really, how they keep missing Santa every year ... :p).

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

[turnmyheadupsidedown]

You ever wonder what Wille and Simon do on Christmas Eve, the day we celebrate Christmas in Sweden?

They will sit down and watch cartoons for one hour at exactly 15:00 and when this scene arrives someone will say “one should have that kind of paint”. And that, my friends, is a very important Swedish Christmas tradition.

[madonna-of-the-wasps]

[fantasygalaxycrystal]

Marry Christmas / Happy jul everyone (Good jul) ❤

and ofcorse Happy holiday for those that mabey don't celebrate christmas/jul!! ❤

[realkaijuhavecurves]

God svensk jul på er

[macirollfights]

Herb cookie encourage you to burn the gavle goat, You must burn the funny swedish straw goat.

I drew this sketch out of fun and its been in my head for a while. But there is this whole "tradition" in sweden where people burn a strawgoat that your not supposed to burn or else you'll get arrested for arson.

Its one of the reasons why I love december and christmas so much, its because of very dumb shit like this. But yeah uhhh merry early christmas for my swedish people out there.

Lets burn the gavleblocken with herb cookie! A sacrifice to the gods!

[krystal-prisms]

[huariqueje]

Christmas Market - John Carlson , 1962.

Swedish , 1896-1979

Oil on panel , 54.5 x 45.5 cm.

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

I missed the crochet pattern last year, semi considering making one (and possibly crocheting flames on the goat) this year.

For the folks who crochet you can find the free pattern here!

[fullcravings]

Swedish Cinnamon Rolls

[tizeline]

I love the fact that non-swedes have discovered the Gävle Goat and are all cheering for it's inevitable annual demise

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ ❦ Queen Silvia of Sweden and her grandchildren help decorate Christmas trees given by the Forest University’s student union, December 16th 2024

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[ghoulnextdoor]

“People say that long ago the dead held a service on the night before Christmas ...”

I initially wrote the following on Christmas eve, fourteen years ago, but have since made an annual tradition of trotting out the creepy old chestnut to share with all of my friends and family and kindred spirits. I cannot envision a more like-minded bunch with which to share this ghostly Christmas tale and I hope you will enjoy its eerie delights as much as I do.

Click on the link for the entirety of The Hooded Congregation (The Christmas Service of the Dead) with illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. And, as always, wishing you peace and light in this dark, dying time of the year, and may you not be without your shawl or other talisman this winter holiday when the dead are afoot and hungry for your company. The Christmas Service of the Dead | Unquiet Things

[frogmuse]

Sainte Lucie