New Year Christmas is over, but the feast days are not. New Year is full of magic, prophesies and foreseeing. Also in Korvatunturi they gather to cast tins in order to predict the future. The big living room of Korvatunturi is lighted up with candles. The stable elf gives a tin horseshoe to everyone. The tins are melted in a long-shafted scoop that is heated in the flames of the big fireplace. Then the melted tin is thrown to a tub of cold water. From the complicated forms of the castings you can see wrinkled money, or a sail that predicts a journey. But you may see also black spots of sorrow or sharp thorns of bad luck. Santa Claus and Mrs Santa are the first ones to cast their tins. After them come the elves, shivering from excitement. Finally  a tin is cast for the spirit of Korvatunturi, so that he would give next year a good dwelling for all inhabitants of Korvatunturi, and that he would protect the mystery of Christmas. Shadows of the tins are studied in the light of the flaming fireplace. Soon there is a shadow show going on on the walls of the room. The bravest are trying to see the future in candle light from the mirror. From there you can see if you are going to be married, or if some sorrows are threatening you. There is a lot of magic in and around Korvatunturi. It feels as if there were a continuous whispering of secrets hovering in the air.

In the last minutes of the year the great fireworks are arranged by the Inventor Elf. You can see globeflower gold, heather red, birch green and blueberry blue. It is as if the polar lights had run wild, when tens of bright coloured rockets are cracking and banging in the sky. The midnight is over, but nobody wants to go to sleep. So all gather near to the warm fireplace and Mrs Santa tells a sad but beautiful story about a little match seller girl: H. C. ANDERSEN  ( Eventyr 40: Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne ”Dansk Folkekalender” 1846)