TODAY IS:
St. Knut's Day. *LOL*

Tjugondag jul ("Twentieth Day Yule"), or Tjugondag Knut (Finnish: nuutinpäivä) is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on January 13. It is not celebrated in Denmark despite being named for Saint Canute, the patron saint of Denmark. The days between Christmas and Tjugondag jul are filled with holidays. Christmas trees are taken down on Tjugondag jul, and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten.
On Tjugondag jul, there was a tradition analogous to modern Santa Claus, where a man dressed a goat (nuuttipukki) would visit houses. Unlike Santa Claus, this was a scary character (cf. Krampus).

I have always assumed d/t my appearance and surmised ancestry that 500 years ago I would have been from one of the above listed countries. Hearing about this celebration only verifies this for me because I think this holiday sounds like alot of fun-  and a man dressed as a goat could easily be terrifying to me. Okay, so, my logic about my ancestral roots isn't altogether sound, but it's fun to use my imagination.

Happy St. Knut's Day!