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Only tangentially related to being a Christmas tradition, but the weirdest thing I grew up with was Knut. 20 days after Christmas you’re supposed to take down all Christmas decorations, and this coincides with children dressing up as old men to beg for treats.
There were other regional variants of this as well. But it was very much a hyperlocal event that is as close to doxing myself as I’m going to get here.
Ah I have done this too, on the 13th of January. We dressed up in any costume. It basically was like Halloween for us well before Murican Halloween made landfall here.
Yeah, I know other regional variants are a bit more open with kinds of dress, but the local (around Fryken) tradition is specifically dressing up as old men. I lived in an area mostly with asylum immigrants who were incredibly confused.
Think I was part of the last generation to do it in my local area.
In Sweden? I grew up with this in Finland, this tradition was alive in only a few villages in the archipelago here. I believe it still is too. Here it also used to be young men dressing up as these nuutti-goats before (which were up to no good unless you gave them food)), but has turned into this kids masquerade and going from house to house signing for treats. It was a lot of fun, there was a village dance after too where even adults were in costumes.