Reuters
Finland hopes to seal its claim as the home of the ‘real’ Father Christmas.
Celebrations at Stonehenge on December 22.
Santa’s helpers at the World Santa Claus Conference in Denmark.
Celebrated in Stockholm on December 13.
A Jewish family lights candles on the fourth night of Hanukkah.
Savadorean pilgrims celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe on December 12.
Mummers sing carols on Orthodox Christmas Eve in Kyrgystan.
The main Christmas meal is fried carp with potato salad and fish or cabbage soup.
A badnjak is a log ceremonially burned on the domestic hearth as part of Christmas celebrations.
Christmas service at the Clementine Hall.
In Bavaria with Buttermandl and Krampusse, who follow him from house to house on December 5 and 6 to bring good luck to the good and punish the idle.
