The Gavle Yule Goat, or julbocken in Swedish, is a 42-foot-high statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, has become famous nationwide since one was first installed on a ...

The Gävle Goat is a 42-foot-high, 3.6-ton statue made of wood and straw erected in the town square each Christmas season. It’s a giant version of the small Yule goats that Swedes traditionally ...

The Gavle Yule goat, a 12.8 metre high statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, has become famous nationwide since one was first installed on a town square in 1966 as a ...

The Gävle goat has been torched, shot with flaming arrows, run over by cars and beaten with clubs. But this year, the massive straw statue has a new antagonist to contend with — hungry birds.

The Gavle Yule goat, a 42-foot (12.8 meter) high statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, has become famous nationwide since one was first installed on a town square in ...

Wallberg is on the committee that oversees the construction of Gävlebocken, Gävle Goat, the name given to the 42-foot, 3-ton straw ... it survives that long.) "Yule Goats" are a common motif ...

A giant Yule goat seemed like a great idea. It wasn’t. It also wasn’t great that the giant statue was made of super-flammable straw. Still, the first Gävle goat actually made it all the way ...

A Christmas tragedy has struck the town of Gävle, Sweden—someone has torched their beloved yule goat. Each year the citizens of Gävle go to great time and expense to build a giant goat effigy ...

Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle has created a massive straw statue of a Yule goat, which is a common theme for Christmas in Sweden. The statue this year stood at 42 feet. But the goat was ...

The Gavle Yule goat, a 12.8-meter-tall statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, is famed not for its size but for the often elaborate schemes dreamt up to destroy it.

The Gavle Yule goat, a 12.8-meter-tall statue made of wood and straw erected every year before Christmas, is famed not for its size but for the often elaborate schemes dreamt up to destroy it.