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For anyone who needs an excuse to start celebrating now you should know this Sunday is the Swedish holiday Santa Lucia. The Swedish embassy has a nice explainer but I like the way my mom told the story when I was a kid so here goes 1/n https://fb.watch/2jeJllNNqU/
My mom told me that long ago Swedes would have a festival on the darkest night of the year to light candles and fires to frighten all the goblins away. Then the Lutherans landed on Swedish shores and were not on board with the pagan tradition but... 2/n
the Swedes wouldn’t just let those pesky goblins run loose on the darkest night of the year so the pagans and the Lutherans compromised. Enter Santa Lucia, who reportedly had her eyes gouged out as she was martyred- the Lutherans suggested she 3/n
could bring the light on the darkest night of the year! So the pagans were happy because the goblins still got frightened away and the Lutherans were happy because the celebration was Christian - or close enough - and everyone else was happy because 4/n
celebrating Lucia is amazing! One brave person wears a wreath of lit candles in their hair (!) and parades through the town with a bunch of candle bearing friends and a few friends with buckets. They bring light and song and Lucia buns which 5/n
are chock full of saffron so when you bite into them it’s like a bun full of sunshine.
For years now we have invited friends to come over and celebrate Lucia, making our cousins Lucia bun recipe and grandpa’s glogg and dressing a friend as Lucia with
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For years now we have invited friends to come over and celebrate Lucia, making our cousins Lucia bun recipe and grandpa’s glogg and dressing a friend as Lucia with
fueled in their hair 6/n
If you need a little more light in your life (who doesn’t?) celebrate this weekend! Light a candle (or 10!), make saffron buns, get tipsy on mulled wine and spike it with vodka (aquavit is traditional but vodka works fine!) and most importantly- scare those goblins away. 
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