IMPORTANT HOLIDAY ALERT!!!

Today is National Sleepy Head Day in Naantali, Finland. Traditionally on this day the last person in the house still sleeping is woken up using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea or by having water thrown on them.

[This day is based on the story of the Seven Sleepers, the Saints of Ephesus who slept in a cave for some two to three hundred years during the Middle Ages to avoid persecution by Decius, the Roman emperor at the time. The story of the Seven Sleepers is told in the Quran and other Muslim texts.]