The '''oskorei''' is the [[Wild Hunt]] in Scandinavian folklore.
According to Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend (eds. Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf), t
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Many aspects of the dwarves (dvergar) in Norse mythology lived on in the Scandinavian belief in vættir. They were thought to be similar in appearance to humans,
.... Like the dwarves, elves, and faries of Christian continental Europe, the Scandinavian Vættir become accused of kidnapping human infants while leaving themselves
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...wights are corpses with a part of their decayed soul. Probably inspired by Scandinavian folklore (of vættir), Tolkien also used the word to denote human-like crea
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...kahästen''' (translated as ''the brook horse'') is a mythological horse in Scandinavian folklore. It has a close parallel in the Scottish [[kelpie]].
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In Finnish mythology, a '''Näkki''' (Estonian: Näkk) is a water spirit that resides in murky p
...r ''Vesihiisi'' (water fey, see Hiisi. It is closely related to the Nix in Scandinavian folklore or Russian Vodyanoi.
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'''Garmr''' or '''Garm''' is a dog in [[Norse mythology]] sometimes seen as a [[hellhound]], comparable to [[Cerberus]].
...s, Henry Adams (trans.). 1923. ''The poetic Edda''. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
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In Norwegian, "gast" approximately means "ghost", but ghosts in Norwegian and Scandinavian folklore differ greatly from the modern perception of ghosts, often having
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In Scandinavian folklore, a '''myling''' (or '''uburd''') is the vengeful ghost of an unbap
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The Scandinavian '''näcken, strömkarlennäck, nøkk, nøkken, strömkarl''', '''Grim''' or
The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse ''nykr'', meaning ''river horse''. Thus
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In scandinavian folklore, the entity referred to as a '''gjenganger''' is the equivalent of
The term gjenganger and its other Scandinavian counterparts, can be directly translated into English as revenant. A more m
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THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
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...into English by Thomas Keightley and published 1828 in his book "The Fairy Mythology". In 1836 the painter and poet August Kopisch published a famous poem begin
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Like the troll of Scandinavian legend, with which the trow shares many similarities, trows are nocturnal c
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...ækhesten''' (translated as ''the brook horse'') is a mythological horse in Scandinavian folklore.
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In Dutch mythology and Dutch folklore, '''kabouters''' are tiny men who live underground, in m
They belong to the [[gnome]]s family and are akin to the Scandinavian [[Tomte]] and the German [[kobold]].
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