Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...native of Sweden herself, Lidskog remembers growing up with the Santa Lucia tradition in her home...
...mother used to dress up my brother and I in Santa Lucia costumes," she said. "At school, him, a friend and I would go from classroom to classroom singing traditional Swedish songs...
According to Lidskog, students across Sweden follow this Santa Lucia-inspired tradition of "courting" their teachers...
...teacher's students go to her house at about 5 a.m., dressed in their Santa Lucia costumes," she said. "The students wake up the teacher by singing `Santa Lucia,' the anthem, and offering the teacher baked goods...
...Each year the Nobel Prize winners stay at a hotel in Stockholm overnight," Lidskog said. "In the early morning, they are woken up by that year's win- ner of the Swedish Santa Lucia Pageant...