Genna
Spotted one error;the star boys are not trolls and demons.However,there was a belief that "Lusse" was accompanied by trolls and demons as she drove about on the longest night of the year.
She is confused with the Saint Lucia,who is accompanied by star boys,holding the Christmas star,most likely symbolizing St.Stephan;maidens from Heaven;and "nissar";house elves.We celebrate her because there was a miracle in Värmland,where the Saint was invoked to stop a famine,and also to imitate the German custom,where the Christkind is symbolized by a girl in white with candles in her hair.This is a late custum;but because we have the old tradition with the fear/and before that maybe devotion of"Lusse" around the Winter Solstice;things get confused.(We have kept many pagan practices in Sweden,but the Saint Lucia is no gnome,she is celebrated on the day of her death,as Saints are).
She is confused with the Saint Lucia,who is accompanied by star boys,holding the Christmas star,most likely symbolizing St.Stephan;maidens from Heaven;and "nissar";house elves.We celebrate her because there was a miracle in Värmland,where the Saint was invoked to stop a famine,and also to imitate the German custom,where the Christkind is symbolized by a girl in white with candles in her hair.This is a late custum;but because we have the old tradition with the fear/and before that maybe devotion of"Lusse" around the Winter Solstice;things get confused.(We have kept many pagan practices in Sweden,but the Saint Lucia is no gnome,she is celebrated on the day of her death,as Saints are).