On this night, the last night of the year, the people all over the world burn gingerbread reindeer.
We do this to celebrate the defeat of the Bad People by the Good People.
Because of that one time when the Bad People tried to punk the Good People by making a giant hollow gingerbread reindeer, filling it with turd, dressing like an Amazon driver and delivering it to the gates of the Good People’s city.
And the Good People, who were smart and cautious, said: “Who even dropped this off? We didn’t order this. For all we know this could have come from an Axe-Wielding Murderer. And why was that Amazon driver laughing? And why was he driving a Civic instead of a Sprinter?”
And then more Good People came out and said things like: “Yeah and it smells bad, too. It smells like turd. I bet the Bad People did this thing as a prank on us.”
So the wise Good People, they hauled the giant hollow turd-filled reindeer back to the gates of the Bad People’s city, and it was New Year’s Eve also, and they set the giant hollow turd-filled reindeer alight.
The Bad People were so engrossed in their New Year’s fireworks they didn’t notice the extra fire from the giant hollow turd-filled reindeer until it was too late. By that time they could smell it, bad, with all the burning turd and whatnot. But they just figured it would make even more of a mess to try to put it out.
So they let it burn.
And that is why today all over the world, it is very common on New Year‘s Eve to burn gingerbread reindeer leftover from Christmas.