Santa Lucia on My Vacation?

My father in laws wife had this woman wake us up at 7:00 am. I walked down the stairs and freaked out. What the hell is this nut case doing I thought. This is really a bizzare tradition. Well as the story goes: Throughout Sweden the feast day of Lucia, or Lucy, is celebrated as a festival of lights. In the early hours of the morning of December 13 a young woman, dressed in a white gown, and wearing a red sash and a crown of lingonberry twigs and blazing candles, would go from one farm to the next carrying a torch to light her way, bringing baked goods, stopping to visit at each house and returning home by break of day. Every village had its own Lucia. The custom is thought to have begun in some of the richer farming districts of Sweden and still persists although the crowns are now electric lights.