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It is said that Adam and Eve had many children, and that one day, when Eve was giving her children a bath, God came to visit. She is fair and beautiful, but wild and has a long cow-tail which she hides behind her back upon meeting a human. Huldra (or called Tallemaja in Swedish) is a troll-like woman living in the woods. The forests, the mountains, and the sea – it all seemed strange, dark and magic, and because of that, we are now left with evil spirits and monsters who used to represent our own way of seeing nature. It was a time when people feared nature, because we were becoming more industrialized. They looked back in time to rediscover their old myths and legends folklore which had been forgotten because of the coming of Christianity. In the 1890s, something changed in the way common Scandinavians saw themselves and their culture. They were often meant to scare children, but even today they are essential and important to the modern northern society. The Scandinavian Folklore consists of a huge variety of creatures, good or evil, which have frightened people for centuries. “Do” is the Norwegian word for toilet ( “loo” is a better translation if one is splitting hairs).ġ0 Creatuers in Scandinavian Folklore by Rebecca Winther-Sørensen If my son spends too much time in the bathroom (it happens ? ), I ask him if “do-draugen” has taken him.
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These are all creatures that are ingrained in our culture – especially the Norwegian culture which seems to have taken these creatures much more to heart than, for instance, the modern Danish culture. FFFbone posted a link to this amazing list of 10 creatures in Scandinavian Folklore at the Random-Fandom.