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northern @northernishere.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The winds are hard enough that Gävlebocken fell.

The traditional Gävle goat has fallen forward onto the ground from hard winds.

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Ann Sjostrom @swenglishlady.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Didn’t get burned, succumbed to the wind! @gavlebocken.bsky.social youtu.be/53dBWu9sqvY?...

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Här faller Gävlebocken 2025

YouTube video by Expressen

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"Unfortunately, I have fallen and met my fate - I’m sorry about my abrupt Christmas closure..." See more below

Gavlebocken stands proudly before being blown down by a heavy wind storm.

Tyvärr har jag fallit och mött mitt öde - jag beklagar mitt plötsliga avslut.

Tack för all värme och kärlek världen över, för era besök och alla fina bilder ni tagit på mig och oss tillsammans. Nu samlar jag kraft för att resa mig inför nästa år. Ta hand om varandra så länge och kom ihåg - I’ll be bock!✨🤍

Gott nytt år mina vänner!🎆

Unfortunately, I have fallen and met my fate - I’m sorry about my abrupt Christmas closure.

Thank you for the warmth and love from all over the world, for your visits and all the beautiful pictures you have taken of me and us together. Now I’m gathering strength to rise for next year. Take care of each other and remember - I’ll be bock!✨🤍

Happy New Year my friends!🎆

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InvestigationCone @investigationcone.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Looks like the goat got windsheared!

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Robert Eriksson 🇪🇺 @roberik.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from Axmarby, Sweden! 🎅🎄🎉🇸🇪 Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and a successful New Year — from Sweden to all of you. ❤️ #MerryChristmas #Christmas #NordicChristmas #HappyHolidays #SeasonGreetings #ChristmasSpirit #GreetingsFromSweden #Sweden

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Robert Eriksson 🇪🇺 @roberik.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Back in my hometown visiting the legendary Gävle Christmas Goat — nothing says home sweet home like this iconic holiday tradition. ❤️🎅🎄🐐✨ #Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social #YuleGoat #HomeSweetHome #HomeTown #Gävle #Sweden #Christmas #ChristmasSpirit #NordicChristmas #WinterMagic

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southernfairy1.bsky.social @southernfairy1.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

🌲🧚‍♂️The Year Walk ('årsgång') was a Swedish ritual, usually practiced on New Year's Eve. The practitioners would venture into a dark forest all alone at night, and face challenges like encounters with supernatural beings. Those who persevered, would see the future. Art by Jana Heiersdorf.🌲🧚‍♂️

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/12/2025

Royal Court [of Sweden]: “In this year’s Christmas Speech, The King urged Swedish people to hold on to hope for the future. The King also highlighted humanity as driving force throughout the country. And that the message of Christmas hope and reconciliation – that darkness never has the last word.”

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Matt Farmer @mattfarmerart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the Mashu, who have been having all sorts of festive fun.

Two Mashu watch a small Mashu sitting on the back of a Yule goat.

Purple and yellow Mashu hang from ribbons in a Christmas tree like decorations.

Green, blue, and red Mashu dangle from a Christmas tree from ribbons like decorations.

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and I hope Jólaköttur the Yule cat didn’t visit last night 😆🎄🐈‍⬛ (The Yule cat of Icelandic folklore is supposed to eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve)

Art of Jólaköttur or the Yule cat of Icelandic folklore. It supposedly eats people who did not get new clothes for Christmas. Giant black cat smiling and standing in front of a house with some kids sweater in its mouth.

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"God jul vänner, tacksam för er alla ✨ Merry Christmas my friends ✨"

Gavlenocken stands in the center of fencing.

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Eva Eskelinen @evelmiina.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Happy holidays everyone Winter sprite and Yule goat, gouache on paper

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⭐️Angela 🐿️ McEwen⭐️ @angelamcewen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The Yule Goat Born of Thor’s thunderous beasts, he massive & wanders village to village, testing the cheer of the season. Sometimes he brings gifts, sometimes he demands them. To honor him is to welcome Yule. He is Capricorn the God of Saturn 🪐 the Star ⭐️ a top the Yule Tree. God Jul to him.

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Dan före dopparedan och ett tunt snötäcke har kommit! ✨❄️ One day until Christmas Eve, and the snow is here! ✨❄️"

Gavlebocken stands proudly in the center of jagged wooden fencing. She is covered in a light dusting of newly fallen snow.

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kat @katcary.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

she’s still standing

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Alex Storer @thelightdreams.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Also met the Jólakötturinn in Reykjavík earlier this month 🙂

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Sarah Pagliaro @spookymoosestudio.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Yule goat rests his gams with a little cider break ❤️🎄 -Thisvis still one of my favorites from my Yule collection 😊 #yule #folklore #yulegoat #illustration

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"Jag hoppas på lite snö innan jul! 🌨️ Har snön hittat till er än? ❄️ I’m hoping for some before Christmas! 🌨️ Has the snow made it’s way to you yet? ❄️"

Gavlebocken stands in the center of fencing.

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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Goat! Also got interrail days left so I randomly got onto a train to Falun. I have no idea what's in Falun but let's find out in an hour

Photo of Gävlebocken, world's largest straw goat, in a cloudy day

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crOwlyCat *s1 is canon* @owlycat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I got myself a julbock, and it has finally arrived here from Sweden! Look at this stunner! And yes, this is vintage and handmade.

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🌼Cotton Valent🌼 A6 : Manga Street @cottonvalent.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎄ขอเปิดตัวภูตผีแห่งฤดูหนาว🎄 Krampus🐐 : ปกติเป็นอ้วนใจดี แต่หากใครเป็นเด็กซนจะเอาไปเป็นต้มยำ Mari Lywd🐎 : ใจดี ชอบกิน ชอบเที่ยว แต่คนส่วนใหญ่กลัวซะงั้น Yule Cat🐈‍⬛: ชอบแทะเสื้อผ้าโดยเฉพาะผ้าใหม่ๆ แต่ชอบกินเนื้อคนใส่เสื้อผ้าเก่าๆ มากกว่า #CreepyCat #IFEXPOWINTER25 #IFEXPOWINTER2025

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TillyChMo 🩷💜💙 @tillychmo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Right! I promised you more Scandi-Christmas-traditions, so no more lollygagging! 😅🥰 A big Dec-thing in the Nordics is that we make a lot of stuff by hand. Whether it’s nature deco (e.g. countdown candle), folding paper deco, baking cookies, etc. Like these! #OFMDadventCalendar #OurFlagMeansDeath

Photo of 3 “Julehjerter” (literal translation is “Christmas Hearts”) – they’re a traditional thing to make at Christmas in the Nordics (esps. in Denmark).

They’re made by two pieces of folded paper, cut to a specific shape and braided together. The paper is the bendable ‘glossy’ kind.

These hearts are made from pre-fabricated cutouts – normally I would cut them myself.

They blue – some with white starts and some with blue glitter all over.

Photo of 4 hand-folded paper stars. They’re each a different colour (white with silver flicked over it, light blue with golden dots, blue-and-gold-striped, and red with white snow-ish dots).

Two of them are folded as ‘ordinary’ 3D stars (the two light blue ones) – the white is folded as half a 3D star (to be placed atop a Christmas present) – and the red is folded flat with no 3D effect at all.

Close-up of the light blue and golden striped 3D star.

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Tänk att just jag får dela julmagin tillsammans med er! Det finns inget bättre än det ❤️ There’s nothing better than sharing the Christmas magic with you ❤️"

Gavlebocken stands in the center of wooden fencing.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Now is the time of Yule and Monsters

A digital illustration in the form of a multi-color relief print. At center is Gryla, Iceland's Troll Witch who stalks the land around the yule snatching misbehaving children and turning them into stew. She has blue skin, a craggy hag face with horns, fangs, and pointed ears framed by long, white hair in two big braids. She's wearing a traditional-ish looking dress and pinafore type thing under a big overcoat. In one hand she's holding a gnarled walking stick, and the other, reaching out toward the viewer is on the back of her pet Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat. He's a huge, fluffy, black cat, getting ready to pounce with his mouth open and one massive paw swiping out. His job is to eat children who are found without new clothes before Christmas. The point of focus of these two monsters, is two terrified, screaming children wearing tattered winter clothing in the lower right of frame. The ground all around is covered in snow, and the background inside a rough-cut framing shape is a spooky forest under a night sky with crescent moon, stars, and swirls of howling wind. Part of the top of the frame widens out into a red banner reading 'Gryla & Jólakötturinn'. Now get out there and try not to get eaten.

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Ghost Dansing ☠️ 👻👽🐸 @ghostdansing.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The Jólakötturinn, or the Yule Cat is a monstrously large creature from Icelandic folklore that is said to roam the snowy countryside during Christmas, with a particular appetite for anyone who has not received new clothes before Christmas Eve or who did not wear them.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Tonight Pottaskefill (Pot Licker), the 5th of Icelands 13 Yule Lads, will come down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into houses and lick the used pots clean. Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.

A Yule Lad with a white beard and a red hat with a stack of pots in his arms. Illustration by Brian Pilkington.

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🩷 sugarhai @sugarhai.com · 02/12/2025

💖 yule cat #yule #art

A giant black Yule cat holding a cup of holiday kids. Features the quote "You are what you eat." He responds "I'm children."

Original art and quote by me, sugarhai, a human artist.

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Malachy Discontent @malachydiscontent.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat is coming 🐱

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Ta en goatie (eller selfie som ni kallar det), säg hej eller bara stanna upp en stund! 📸 Jag levererar ståtlighet oavsett 🐐🌟 Take a goatie (or selfie as you humans call it), say hello or just pause for a moment! 📸 I deliver the stateliness no matter what 🐐🌟"

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Calamity 🦭🥐💕 @calamitydeath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My Tennobaum Card for the Warframe Holiday Card Contest aka based on the Yule Goat 🐐💕 #Warframe

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

From the Larchives.

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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Advent day 13. The Feast of St. Lucy - hello fellow Lucies/ Lucias/ Lucindas - time to wear a crown of candles & munch saffron buns.

Plump St Lucia saffron buns in a sort of S shape waiting for the oven. Brioche style yeasted dough, inauthentic raisins instead of currants.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Today's the feast of St Lucy, 'the year's midnight' according to John Donne's 'A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day', which was written before the Gregorian Calendar moved the feast away from the Winter Solstice. it begins:

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"Glad Lucia! ✨ Ljuskrona är inget för en getabock som jag. Men med elektriska ljus känner jag mig bocktastisk 💡🐐 Happy Saint Lucy’s Day! ✨ A crown of candles isn’t really my style. Electric lights, on the order hand, make me feel goatastic 💡🐐"

Gavlebocken surrounded by trees and wooden fencing is lit up by electric lighting.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🎵santa lucia, santa lucia🎵

Pen and colored pencil sketch of Saint Lucy depicted as a bluish revenant with wild blond hair and a crown of five candles. She strides to the right, hunched, looking over her shoulder with eyeless sockets. Her red sash flies in the wind and her white dress is stained with red. In her hands she clutches eyeballs

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James Mitchell @plainfeather.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Reindeer in Sweden - Kevin Rushby, The Guardian. #winter #Sweden

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"En bock som jag bor förstås i Gävle! 🐐✨ Men ni då vänner, var i världen håller ni hus? 🌍 A goat like me lives in Gävle, of course! 🐐✨ What about you friends, where in the world do you live? 🌍"

Gavlebocken is shown from the side and jagged wooden fencing shoots up around her. Large trees are shown in the background/foreground making her look like she is in the forest.

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

'Julbocken' (Yule Goat), 1917

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Gävlebocken @gavlebocken.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"Solen sa hej idag och jag svarade med att inta min bästa bockpose - ståtligt va? 🐐🌞 The sun said hello today, and I responded by striking my best goat pose - quite majestic, right? 🐐🌞"