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Pages in category "Scandinavian legendary creatures" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... Nisse (folklore) Nixie (folklore) ...
Mother Troll and Her Sons by Swedish painter John Bauer, 1915. Troll (Norwegian and Swedish), trolde (Danish) is a designation for several types of human-like supernatural beings in Scandinavian folklore. [27] They are mentioned in the Edda (1220) as a monster with many heads. [28] Later, trolls became characters in fairy tales, legends and ...
Pages in category "Swedish folklore" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Agnete og Havmanden;
In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized, and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on the source, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted, or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly ...
In the 19th-century tale of "Prince Lindworm" (also "King Lindworm") [19] from Scandinavian folklore, a "half-man half-snake" lindworm is born, as one of twins, to a queen, who, in an effort to overcome her childlessness, followed the advice of an old crone who instructed her to eat two onions. As she did not peel the first onion, the first ...
Old Norse draugr is defined as "a ghost, spirit, esp. the dead inhabitant of a cairn". [2] Often the draugr is regarded not so much as a ghost but a revenant, [3] i.e., the reanimated corpse of the deceased inside the burial mound [4] (as in the example of Kárr inn gamli in Grettis saga).
Anaye - (Navajo) various monsters that take the forms of animals, living objects and other things. Derived from a time where men and women bet on who would last the longest without the other sex and the women pleasuring themselves with whatever random things they thought would do the job, which caused their chosen toys to father them monstrous ...
A Skogsrå meeting a man, as portrayed by artist Per Daniel Holm in the 1882 book Svenska folksägner. The Skogsrå (Swedish: skogsrået [ˈskʊ̂ksˌroːɛt] ⓘ; lit. ' the Forest Rå '), Skogsfrun ('the Mistress of the Forest'), Skogssnuvan, Skogsnymfen ('the Forest Nymph'), Råndan ('the Rå') or Huldran, is a mythical female creature (or rå) of the forest in Swedish folklore.