Julebukken/Yule goat #FolkloreThursday

Julebukken/Yule goat #FolkloreThursday

Today is the Christmas goat for some maybe one of those dusty straw things you can put on the Christmas tree (see here), for others a masquerade you do the time between Christmas eve and New years’ eve. This cheeky character was out on Christmas Eve, after it was dark...
Norwegian folktale  #folkloreThursday

Norwegian folktale #folkloreThursday

Sometimes reading footnotes in Norwegian folktales books is like finding treasures. The footnotes usually refers to other variantions or other stories collected. These stories, could maybe hardly be called stories, as there are only fragments or skeletons of stories....