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Swedish Legends and Folktales
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Texts
- This world
- 1. Investigation of a grotto
- 2. Sounding at Vassdal
- 3. Delsboâs Churchbell
- 4. The man who drowned in a washbasin
- 5. Twelve children on a platter
- 6. The piece of straw
- 7. Retribution
- 8. Folk beliefs about portents
- 9. Portent from the Nissar
- 10. Plague Omens
- 11. Buried alive to stop the plague
- 12. Plague victims dig their own graves
- 13. The survivors
- 14. An old troll is tricked into revealing his treasure
- 15. Tokarsbergetâs treasure
- The other world
- 16. The giant from Klasahall
- 17. A toy for the giant
- 18. Save it for tomorrow
- 19. The giant who moved
- 20. The big boulder north of Torstuna church
- 21. It's a long way to Gamla Uppsala
- 22. A giant builds a church (the Finn legend)
- 23. The old man from HĂ„berg
- 24. Trolls take over the farm
- 25. The bear trainer and the trolls
- 26. Beating the changeling
- 27. The changeling speaks on the way to baptism
- 28. Changing a housewife
- 29. Communion wine in the troll food
- 30. Bergtagen
- 31. The silver mountain
- 32. Stealing for the trolls
- 33. The Pan Legend
- 34. A message for the cat
- 35. Ljungby horn and pipe
- 36. Retrieving the cup
- 37. Encounters with the SkogsrÄ
- 38. The RĂ„ helps a charcoal-burner
- 39. Tibast and VĂ€ndelrot
- 40. Garlic and tar (TibastsÀgnen)
- 41. Shooting the SkogsrÄ
- 42. A rude awakening
- 43. Tricking a christian
- 44. Oden was a Sunday hunter
- 45. The woman was tied behind the horse by her braids
- 46. The NĂ€ckâs Reel
- 47. The NĂ€ck pulls the plow
- 48. Riding the BÀckahÀst
- 49. The Strömkarl at Garphytte
- 50. The NĂ€ck longs for salvation
- 51. The mill spirit
- 52. The SjödrÄ warns of an impending storm
- 53. Helping the SjödrÄ (VantevÀnnen)
- 54. The SjörÄ in Helgasjön
- 55. âBindingâ and driving off a SjödrĂ„
- 56. A handout for the merman
- 57. HÄvÄlen
- 58. The blind sea captain
- 59. Encounters with Tomtar
- 60. The Tomte carries a single straw
- 61. New clothes for the Tomte
- 62. The Tomte learns to rest
- 63. The missing butter
- 64. The Tomteâs favorite horse
- 65. Exorcising the Tomte
- 66. A shipâs Tomte
- The world of religion
- 67. The devil as a black dog
- 68. The HĂ„rga-dance
- 69. Dancing in Dalarna
- 70. The dance at FrisagÄrd
- 71. The cardplayers and the devil
- 72. The devil advises suicide
- 73. The girls at the parsonage get help sewing crinoline
- 74. Giving the devil a ride
- 75. The devil as the fourth wheel
- 76. Outwitting the devil
- 77. The devil in the church
- 78. Old Erik in the mill
- 79. The Easter-hag put a water-trough in her place
- 80. With her godmother to Josefsdal
- 81. The witch at TÄdÄs
- 82. The magic horn
- 83. Following the witch
- 84. Milking others' cows
- 85. Captain Eli
- 86. The devil and Kitta GrÄ
- 87. Werewolf and nightmare
- 88. Becoming a werewolf
- 89. The identity of the nightmare
- 90. The farm hand tied sharpened scythes over the horseâs back
- 91. A haunting
- 92. A ghost gets a free ride
- 93. Strand-ghosts
- 94. The parson could not say âour daily breadâ
- 95. Peace in the grave
- 96. The hanged man seeks his pine tree
- 97. The power of sorrow
- 98. The dead bridegroom
- 99. The Christmas service of the dead
- 100. A false ghost
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index of tale types
- General index