Saint Knut's Day
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Saint Knut's Day, or the Feast of Saint Knut, is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on 13 January. It is not celebrated on this date in Denmark despite being named for the Danish
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Man dressed as nuuttipukki from 1928
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The goat or domestic goat is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the famil
Saint Knut's Day
…of Knut/Christmas'). On nuutinpäivä, a tradition has been observed which is somewhat analogous to the modern Santa Claus, where young men dressed as goats (Finnish: nuuttipukki) would visit houses. Usually the dress was an inverted fur jacket, a leather or birch bark mask, horns, sometimes with a sauna…
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Horn cores from the Neolithic village of Atlit Yam, between 6900 and 6300 BC
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