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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • 4 min

Explainer 144: Who’s burning the Gävle goat?

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  • The Foreign Desk
  • 4 min

It is tradition in the small Swedish town of Gävle to erect a giant straw goat to celebrate Advent. However it is also tradition, or at least it has become so, to try to destroy it in increasingly imaginative ways. Andrew Mueller investigates.

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  • Andrew Mueller

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