The records preserved in the Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore show that in the old farmer society of the 19th and early 20th century, there were many different notions about who Lucia really was. Since this time of the year was already associated with trolls, the dead, and evil spirits, the Lucia figure was sometimes seen as a frightening one. At some places she was believed to lead the Lussi Ride, a company of ghostly or supernatural beings that rode across the sky during the Lussi Night (a kind of variant of the Wild Hunt). Of course I couldn’t resist to try to draw that.
