Christmas gift-bringers of Europe

The "christmass goat" isn't just a finnish thing, it's still a quite common part of christmass celebrations in Sweden too. Called the "jul bock". It's obvious that he's being overshadowed by the american Santa Claus the last 100 years or so. They still make a huge one in Gævle though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Goat

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The "christmass goat" isn't just a finnish thing, it's still a quite common part of christmass celebrations in Sweden too. Called the "jul bock". It's obvious that he's being overshadowed by the american Santa Claus the last 100 years or so. They still make a huge one in Gævle though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Goat


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Capra means Goat, is also the name of a traditional Romanian dance, performed around New Year.
It's executed by a young man with a goat mask and a sheep skin on his back. The 'goat' and his companions go from house to house, dancing at each door on New Year's Eve.
https://youtu.be/ZxCT5oOBfSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxCT5oOBfSc

 

Las trangas in Bielsa. Carnival begins just after Christmas, from January 17

The trangas are the single boys of the valley who are in charge of giving life to this character who attacks the children and the girls. They are dressed in the skin and horns of a he-goat, a skirt, a few big and big shells at the waist. Their faces are painted black with soot and oil, large potato teeth and a long stick, called tranga hence their name, which they chase after, in years after they were used to climb the balconies of the houses. They are responsible for picking up the madamas (single wenches) at the door of their house during the round. They symbolize fertility.
 

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