What is "joulupukki"

Joulupukki is a Finnish Christmas figure. The name "Joulupukki" literally means " Christmas goat" or " Yule Goat" in Finnish; the word pukki comes from the Teutonic root bock, which is a cognate of the English " buck", "Puck", and means "billy-goat". An old Scandinavian custom, the figure eventually became more or less conflated with Santa Claus.