A small straw Christmas goat has been set alight in the Swedish city of Gävle, but the larger version — long the target of yuletide arsonists — remains untouched with just over a week to go.
Just a week after Gävle's traditional Christmas goat got burned down on its inauguration day, a vandal drove a car into the tiny replica set up to honour the giant straw beast.
This year's unfortunate version of Gävle town's giant Christmas straw goat could rise from the ashes with the help of fundraising, after it was burned to the ground on its inauguration day.
The Swedish town of Gävle has vowed to call in extra guards on the 50th anniversary of its iconic Christmas goat to protect the straw animal from again being torched by arsonists.
The Gävle goat has has once again been set ablaze by Yuletide arsonists, with one suspected perpetrator spending the night sobering up in a cell after being seized by police.
What do a giant straw goat, Cat Stevens and Sweden's most iconic sweets have in common? They all have links to Gävle, the biggest city in east Sweden, but barely known abroad.
A baby goat missing from an animal park in west Sweden has been found. But zoo keepers say the kid was so badly injured in a violent sex attack that they had to ask vets to put it down.
The infamous Christmas goat in Gävle has beaten off the arsonists and made it through the holiday season for the first time in years, with its spokesperson telling The Local that the goat is now set for China.
The prospects of Sweden's iconic straw goat surviving Christmas have taken a knock after its infant brother was vandalised just days after going on display in Gävle.
The quest to save Gävle's giant Christmas goat from its annual torching has begun in earnest with organizers set to move the local taxi rank in order to ward off potential arsonists.
Gävle's Yuletide goat has failed to survive until Christmas after it was set on fire during the early hours of Saturday morning in what has become an infamous annual event.
If the darkness of winter's already starting to get you down, the light and merriment –not to mention the calories and alcohol – of a Swedish Advent should help pick you up.
An enormous and iconic straw goat that gets illegally torched almost every Christmas is to be unveiled to the Gävle public on Sunday, with organizers confident a changed in design will keep arsonists at bay.
A Swedish pensioner has pledged to lead the defence of the Gävle goat, a feature of Christmas in the Swedish town and which traditionally ends up in flames, making her this week's pick for Swede of the Week.
A farmer in western Sweden is under pressure to find female companionship for his lone male pig, with authorities threatening to take the hog away if he fails to comply.
After the iconic Gävle Christmas goat was torched by unidentified vandals last week, a photo appeared online of four ankles bearing burning goat tattoos. Police are now hot on the case.
Private security guards are keeping the traditional Gävle Christmas goat from trouble this year, as arsonists almost got to the 13-metre tall straw structure before it had even been officially inaugurated.
The giant 13 metre tall Christmas goat (Gävlebocken) in the main square of Gävle, on the east coast of Sweden went up in flames early Friday morning after an attack by unknown assailants.
Two mysterious men attempted to bribe a guard to leave his post watching over the giant goat in Gävle in eastern Sweden in an attempt to kidnap the iconic Christmas symbol using a helicopter.
He stands tall and proud, the very model of inflammability. He is the Gävle goat and 2006 will be remembered as the year he made it through Christmas without being burned to bits by merry arsonists.
