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BEHOLD, FOR NATURE RECLAIMS THE SACRIFICE THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT REFUSES TO ALLOW US TO MAKE. IF WE CANNOT BURN IN SACRIFICE TO THE GODS, THE GODS WILL TAKE WHAT IS THEIRS BY FORCE

Look, I know we’re all tickled that the Gävle Goat has been pecked apart by birds, but as far as omens go, it’s a bit like flipping a coin and having it land on the edge

has anyone shot a firework at it

Yes! In 1997 someone did, but it was only lightly damaged and did not burn down fully.

Spell to Burn the Gävle Goat

🔥🐐🔥

Likes charge, reblogs cast -- you know the deal.

To make everyone happy I think they should build the goat, let it stand for the usual timeframe, and then, on the day they usually take it down, burn it on purpose. I know this would cause so many problems and be incredibly dangerous but I mean it's not like you can reuse the hay anyway and CLEARLY it can't be that hard to build a new scaffolding since they've done it so many times. I just really think it's in our best interest to embrace the modern folk religion that has sprung up around this thing and give the people what they want.

gotta love it when swedens in the spotlight

even if it's for something like birds eating gävle bocken

Who burnt the goat? >:(

Holy shit there are so many birds

last christmas i made little Gävlebocken ornaments

Who benefits from the goat being unburnt? Are we missing part of the fun here? On the ground in Gavle is there a crowd of hometown heroes thwarting arsonist assassins left and right?

Catch me fighting the Gavle volunteer army surrounding the goat on my way to commit arson.

Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

THE GOAT HAS BURNED I REPEAT THE GOAT HAS BURNED

it’s just funny though that in The Before Times when the goat burned (or didn’t burn) there was very little fanfare except maybe some tongue in cheek celebration (or disappointment). but give it a few jokes about lack of ritual sacrifice and a five-year survival streak and two plague years and suddenly we’ve collectively tapped into the seasonal worship instincts of our ancestors from 36,000 BCE and created a new sacred ritual through sheer force of internet jokes and desperate hope. it’s like we’ve crowdfunded a god.

[ID: a picture of the Gävlebocken, captioned "If you're cold, they're cold. Set them on fire."]

Can somebody tell me what is supposed to happen with the gävlebocken if not burned or destroyed? Does it just stand there? Do you have a large storage for it? Sell it maybe?