Saint Knut's Day

The Saint Knutt’s Day in January has played an important role in Finnish folklore, to which Christmas has been considered to end according to old regulations. This is also indicated by the old adage, which says: “Good Tuomas brought Christmas with him, an evil Nuutti took it away.” Under the old laws, the Christmas peace lasted for 20 days, beginning on December 21, the name day of Tuomas, and ending on January 13, the day of Nuutti (Knut in Swedish).

In old times the Nuuttipukkis were young men dressed to upside down fur coats, birch bark masks and horns. They went from house to house, dragged away the Christmas tree and drank all the Christmas beer. They were feared, but always let in, because it would have been a bad thing for the house not to.

We took down all Christmas decorations and lights and threw Christmas tree out from balcony.

Weather was miserable today. Goodbye beautiful snowy trees: it rained almost all day.


+3°C, rainy