#the gävle goat

[hasgavlebockenburneddownyet]

time lapse of all the birds yesterday

[rihkamakoru]

[ikeepseeingghosts]

A few suggestions made by Some Guy* on the news on how to protect the goat from birds:

- fill the air with unpleasant smells

- cover the goat with piano wire

- petrolium gas cannon

- kill a few birds and leave the corpses on the goat as a varning

* apparently he was an airport inspector, the closest we got to a professional on "how to ge rid of birds from a giant goat"

[thelovelyblark-barg]

oh please let me on this map please I won't do anything bad I promise I can be trusted near the hay goat

[chalksoul]

As someone that celebrated christmas/yule in Gävle most my life I always cheer for both the defence and crime teams. But this year the Goat must go down for a simple reason.

Boring as fuck defence. Nothing new. No armoured knights. Nothing fun. They could at least give the guards silly hats or something.

(fun fact, if you spend a lot of time as a teen in Gävle you can't fathom how many dudes are implying that they *might* be one of the arsonists that got away when hitting on you)

[luminarai]

Between 2017-2022 the Gävle goat has only burned down once, at one point reaching an unprecedented four year survival streak (prior to this, it had only managed a maximum of two years in a row), and well. I’m not saying that the world needs more ritualistic sacrifices of large flammable icons to appease and balance the unknown forces of good and evil in the world, I’m just saying that it wouldn’t hurt to try, you know?

[rave-lord-nito]

Just thought I'd let you all know that in lieu of being burned, nature itself has this year turned upon Gävlebocken and it is currently being devoured by a flock of birds

[foundfamilyhq]

[dullurbancryptid]

the only thing im looking forward to this Christmas is the Gävle Goat burning

[hasgavlebockenburneddownyet]

Holy shit there are so many birds

[yourlocalbreadenthusiast]

The goat's looking a little rough.

Look at him. The birds have torn him down to the framework.

Also

Is that a person up there?

[feijoaaas]

i know this will get zero notes but it’s pretty funny as a swede to read about the Gävlebocken because we don’t use “the” obviously, instead we just stick endings onto words which then indicate if it’s plural or singular etc

for example a christmas tree is “en julgran” where one is en and jul=xmas gran=pine tree, but if we’re talking about a specific one or a singular one it’s julgranen. another example is a dog is hund but the dog is hunden.

so we just say Gävlebocken because it’s the one and only. so reading the Gävlebocken kinda reads like THE ONE AND ONLY YEAH IM TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE MADDAFOOKER HE GETS BURNT BUT HE GETS UP AGAIN YOU KNOW HIM WE ALL KNOW HIM IT’S THE ONE, THE ONLY, THE UNSTOPPABLE, THEEEEEE GÄVLEBOCKEEEN!!!!! like some sort of announcer for the biggest heavy weight boxer champion of them all entering the arena for the match of the century

and it’s just very funny please keep it up :D

[notavalidusername]

blah blah blah

something about the Gävle Goat and Prometheus, fire and destruction by bird

[stardustloki]

The problem with the gävle goat is that I seem to have adopted tumblr's theory, that if the goat doesn't burn that means the next year will be a bad one for the world. And I've adopted this theory fully into my belief system. So the fact that Gävlebocken hasn't burnt yet is giving me anxiety.

[gwydionmisha]

The Gävle Goat: A Struggle Of Tradition and Mischief

[sheeptiefstolemyheart]