10 Dark Scandinavian Legends

scandinavian folklore is among the darkest summer finished shinning legends told by our species have their origins here tales from Norse mythology tend to be whimsical in tone the legends I tell you today will not be like that from ill-conceived satanic packs to terrifying beasts here are 10 dark Scandinavian legends there is a monster lives deep within a cave the cave is hidden by large mountains making it almost impossible to find and those who do by chance enter the cave will soon be cannibalized the monster inside is a giant hideous ogre s she rarely leaves her cave but occasionally does during fixed snowstorms she walks into remote villages and small towns looking for sleeping children with her long arms and sharp claws she pulls young children out of their homes and drags them away by the time the children's parents realize she has vanished into her storm back at her cave she cuts her children into pieces and cooks them into a stew to feed her own 70 children after decades of losing children to high an angry mob once gathered to hunt down and kill the ogre s they followed the creature into a snowstorm and just like the children were never seen again in the Middle Ages children born outside of wedlock was seen as abominations as their existence was a crime against God they would often be denied baptism and abandoned to die this practice was called oats bird meaning VAT which has taken outside after the child's inevitable death alone in the wild they would be denied a proper burial without vase or baptism they were not taken to heaven the ghosts of these abandoned children remain wandering the earth they look like children but with partially decaying skin and pitch black eyes people wore wands not to travel through remote Scandinavian areas alone at night as for ghost children at hat alone travelers they are agile under the cover of darkness before their victim realizes the ghost is near it jumps onto V travellers back it demands for traveller to take them to a graveyard before sunrise as the morning comes closer the ghost will become angry and violent if you don't reach a graveyard by Dawn they will break your neck and disappear only reaching a graveyard can ensure your safety but the closer you get the heavier the ghost child becomes few survive encounters with them they are the most feared ghosts in Scandinavia many centuries ago there was in notorious debt collector he was a cruel man and so hated in his village for locals called on the devil to claim his soul after summoning Satan by unknown means they demanded he take for man to hell the devil was tempted by the man's soul as it was an especially dark one but he was reluctant to do the bidding of humans server man was able to negotiate with him they made a new deal as the man was able to trick even Satan if they could find someone to ask for devil to take a different soul for man would be free eventually they encountered an old woman who was forced to be mute but she now spoke asking the devil to take the dead collect his soul for years she had watched him cheat and abuse others but never said anything [Music] the Black deaf might have killed 50% of all people in Europe most people know of its but few people know how V disease spread there is a creature that brings mass death with it little is known about of a creature it takes on the appearance of an old woman carrying a rake or a broom if carrying a broom everyone in the village she visits will die if carrying a rake they will have a chance to survive it was this creature who brought four plague to Scandinavia it went with her one village survivor plagued by never allowing people carrying a broom to enter it the village was isolated by a small island but to be fairly operated grew blind one day he met an old woman so he asked if she was carrying a broom she said no by the time they crossed the lake everyone in the village was already dead she was the creature and had lied to him his in within burial mounds in the coldest and most remote parts of Scandinavia are strange undead creatures known as again walkers they are not ghosts but the reincarnated corpses of dead humans they are the spirits of those who died at sea denied access to heaven or hell the spirits enter ancient corpses and walk the earth again they mostly remain in their burial mounds but sometimes emerged to spread vac Hinds just they bite or scratch from an again Walker is enough to transform a living person into one normal weapons are useless against them as they are already dead your only option on seeing an undead is to run they can sometimes visit humans in our dreams dreaming of them means one of two things either you will be driven insane by it or a horde of undead is coming to kill everyone you know and you will be the last to die [Music] there was once a very poor man for as long as he could remember he was the poorest person in his village but within him was intense ambition and resentment he made a deal with the devil in return for his soul the devil gave him a meal that could produce unlimited amounts of any substance from grain to gold and silver the devil also taught him the magical way to turn off the mill he became fabulously wealthy one day he allowed his brother to use the mill but the brother didn't know how to turn off the mill and it's soon buried for whole town in grain to make sure this would never happen again he decided to sell the mill the captain of a merchant ship paid a large fortune for Vermeil he then started to explain how to turn off a mill but blinded by greed the captain murdered him before he could tell for fear he would undo their deal the captain loaded the mill onto his ship but couldn't wait midway through the journey home he started producing salt with the mill at first he was delighted but her salt surrounded him he was unable to stop the mill his ship sank to the ocean floor and he drowned with it [Music] there have been many plagues and many superstitious solutions there was a time when it must have seemed like every village had its own method of preventing plagues one remote village used human sacrifice many centuries ago they tried every known method but when all failed vain desperation took a young child and buried him alive the boys screaming horrified those who covered him with dirt but the old man who advised this insisted they let him die if a plague died down after the boy's death and from that day at the first sign of any plague a small child was buried alive in that village have a bottom of rivers and small lakes are sometimes found mysterious beings the exact nature of these beings is unknown but veil shapeshifters known to play a resistible music on enchanted violins lone travelers passing by hear the music and feel drawn towards it by a force they can't fight following the music into the water the creature will then show itself as a beautiful woman and love a traveler closer but when you get close enough it will grab you and transform into its true form that of an old man with yellow eyes and freakishly long arms he wraps his arms around you and drags you under water to drown Stockholm subway is said to be home to a mysterious train known as silver Pilon which means silver arrow it can only ever be seen stopping at stations which are now abandoned usually by subway workers or urban explorers it's always empty but with lies lays like a functional train and so those who see it are often lured onto the train but a moment they step foot onto the carriage the door closes behind them the train will then begin to move a minority of passengers will return maybe several months or years later in a state of confusion but most who step onto the train simply disappear and are never seen again if said VATS before recorded history a group of nossek women underwent a ceremony to ease the pain of childbirth but a ceremony did not go as planned black magic was used and he would cause the women more pain than they could have imagined they were no longer mortal and every night they transform into werewolves the transformation would be slow as their skeleton physically changes and their teeth and claws grow long an uncontrollable rage now takes grip of them and they kill any human v encounter their children will be just like them transforming every day at midnight the descendants of those women may still be out there doing wolf things [Music] you [Music]

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Keywords: Scandinavian Legends, Scandinavian folklore, Scandinavian monsters, Silverpilen, Draugr, Norwegian legends, Danish legends, Swedish legends, creepy scandinavia, Pesta, Myling

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Published: Tue Oct 31 2017