Picture ID and Title Ideas Needed

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- 02/03/2017 at 8:10 am #11687
  arrowsr5
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  http://imgur.com/diU0S6n
  
  Trying to come up with a good title for this picture. There are no markings to tell where it was made or about the scene. Can anyone help?
  
  Thanks,
  Arrowsr5
- 02/03/2017 at 10:55 am #11706
  Ryanne
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  the shiny-ness makes me think it’s acutally an oil painting. does it feel very smooth? and glossy? it’s probably oil. this is what i would call it–
  
  Vintage Scandinavian Snow Village Outsider Folk Art Oil Painting in Oak Frame 8×10 (or whatever the size is)
  
  what a cool painting!
- 02/03/2017 at 12:25 pm #11707
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  Could be an Austrian Christmas painting. Looks like Krampus on the left.
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- 02/03/2017 at 1:03 pm #11710
  Habnab
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  OMG, I love this!
  
  It looks like a little girl wearing a St. Lucia candle crown all the way on the left, next to Krampus.
- 02/03/2017 at 3:49 pm #11715
  sonia
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  This is definitely an eastern european, maybe Ukrainian, scene that depicts christmas carolers. Ukrainian carolers always carry a big star like that, and dress up as animals and other characters. Russians may have the same tradition, I’m not sure.
  
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/375346950168157286/
  
  From brama.com, a ukrainian website
  Caroling required extensive preparation. Each group had a leader. One member dressed as a goat. Another as a bag carrier, the collector of all the gifts people would give them. Yet another carried a six-pointed star attached to a long stick with a light in its center, which symbolized the Star of Bethlehem. In some places the people even had musical instruments, such as the violin, tsymbaly (dulcimer), or the trembita (a wooden pipe about 8-10 feet long, used in the Carpathian mountains by the Hutsuls).
  
  Caroling was not a simple singing of Christmas songs; it was more of a folk opera. The carolers first had to ask for permission to sing. If the answer was yes, they entered the house and sang carols for each member of the family, even for the smallest child. Sometimes they even performed slow ritualistic dances. They also had to present a short humorous skit involving the goat. The custom of the goat accompanying the carolers has its origin in the pagan times when the goat represented the god of fertility. The skit showed the goat dying and then being brought back to life. This also symbolized the death of Winter and the birth of Spring. The caroling always ended with short well-wishing poems, appropriately selected for each home.
- 02/04/2017 at 12:57 am #11733
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  I don’t know
  But it’s pretty nice !!!!!!
- 02/04/2017 at 1:15 am #11734
  sonia
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  the clothing is also typical Ukrainian or other eastern european ethnic wear.
- 02/04/2017 at 6:43 am #11735
  arrowsr5
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  You guys are so helpful. Any idea what I should begin pricing at for Buy it Now?
  
  Arrowsr5
- 02/04/2017 at 9:43 am #11741
  Jay
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  Based on keywords that people have supplied, see what things sell for.
  Let us know what you’d price it at.
- 02/04/2017 at 12:13 pm #11742
  Habnab
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  Interesting; so it’s not Krampus, it’s a person dressed as a goat? Great information!
- 02/04/2017 at 12:57 pm #11745
  Rudolphthered
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  It might be from Finland. There is a Christmas goat character there called Joulupukki.
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