Swedish folklore

thumb|upright=1.3|''Look at them, troll mother said. Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon.'' (1915) by John Bauer (illustrator)|John Bauer A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

12th-century Swedish King and Saint

thumb|The goddess Sif holds her long, golden hair while grain grows behind her in an illustration from 1897 In Norse mythology, Sif is a golden-haired goddess associated with earth. Sif is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, she is known for her golden hair and is married to the thunder god Thor.

water sprite from European mythology

traditional carved, painted wooden horse statuette

humanoid mythical creature of Nordic folklore

A hulder (or huldra) is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore. Her name derives from a root meaning "covered" or "secret". In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra ("the [archetypal] hulder", though folklore presupposes that there is an entire Hulder race and not just a single individual). She is known as the skogsrå "forest spirit" or Tallemaja "pine tree Mary" in Swedish folklore, and '''''' in Sámi folklore. Her name suggests that she is originally the same being as the völva divine figure Huld and the German Holda.

straw Christmas goat in Gävle, Sweden

island in Sweden

The lindworm (worm meaning snake), also spelled lindwyrm or lindwurm, is a mythical creature in Northern, Western and Central European folklore that traditionally has the shape of a giant serpent monster which lives deep in the forest. It can be seen as a sort of dragon.

Scandinavian tradition linked to crayfish harvest regulations

In Nordic folklore and mythology, a fylgja (Old Norse: , Old Swedish: fylghia, older Dalecarlian: fylgja) is a supernatural being or spirit which accompanies a person in connection to their fate or fortune. They can appear to people in their sleep as dream-women, or appear to them while awake, often in the disembodied spiritual form of an enemy.

thumb|Blockula in the thumb|Witches' Sabbath at the Blocksberg, Johannes Praetorius, Leipzig, 1668 thumb|Detail of the stone labyrinth on the Swedish islet of Blå Jungfrun Blockula (, ) was a legendary island where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbath. It was described as containing a massive meadow with no visible end, and a large house where the Devil would stay.

witch on flying broomstick at Eastertime within older folklore

thumb|A Skogsrå meeting a man, as portrayed by artist Per Daniel Holm in the 1882 book Svenska folksägner The ' (Swedish definite form: ; ), ' (definite: , 'the mistress of the forest'), '''''' (definite: , 'the maiden of the forest'), ', , or ' (definite: , , 'the forest nymph'), is a mythical female creature (or ) of the forest in Swedish folklore.

Swedish springtime tradition; 25 March

medieval ballad

thumb|Fossegrim playing a harp in a waterfall under the statue to the violinist Ole Bull in [[Bergen]] thumb| ("The Stream Man") by Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, 1884 Fossegrim, also known simply as the grim (Norwegian) or Strömkarlen (Swedish), is a water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore. He is often depicted as a handsome, nude man playing the fiddle in and . Fossegrim has been associated with a mill spirit (kvernknurr) and is related to the water spirit (nokken) and is sometimes also called näcken in Sweden.

Swedish-Norwegian superstitious protection sigil to ward off trolls or other malevolent magical creatures

In Norse mythology, a ' (Old Norse: , pl. or ' — "warden," "watcher" or "caretaker") is a warden spirit, believed to follow from birth to death the soul (, see Hug (folklore)) of every person.

the mind in Nordic folk belief

Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual

thumb|Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932)

In Scandinavian folklore, a rå ( ), short for rådare ("ruler") from råda (to rule, to advise) from old Norse ráða, is a spirit who is the keeper or warden of a particular location or landform. The rå is known both in Nordic culture and in the Sami culture, where it is called radie.

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