In Iceland, we have many stories about elves and trolls and stuff. The elves are usually said to live in rocks, but still there's this old tradition about the new year.
Not many people do it anymore, but my family does :bleh:
At midnight new years eve, one of the family walks around the house, saying:
"Komi ?eir sem koma vilja, fari ?eir sem fara vilja".
it means something like that:
"Come they who want to come, leave they who want to leave".
So, the story says, that elves move on the new year. And by walking around and saying this, we're keeping them happy
Of course, we also have the crazy santas I wrote about in Jokes :w00t: