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 ...

Gävle’s first giant goat was built in 1966 as ... Swedish ‘Yule goat’ burned as locals revive ... The Gävle Goat is a 42-foot-high, 3.6-ton statue made of wood and straw erected in the ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle was set ablaze on Friday for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running ...

The 50th anniversary of the first Yule goat statue was in 2016. On November 27, the statue was unveiled. By night, it was up in flames. Some of the strangest attacks ...

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 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 ...

Reuters A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of ...

A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle was set ablaze on Friday for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals illegally attempting to torch it and ...

A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals ...

Reuters A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of ...