Danish folklore

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The Helhesten. This danish spirit was once an ordinary horse, who was buried alive on the grounds of a church, condemned to guard the graveyard for eter... Helhesten

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Tatteredbanners: "In Danish folklore, a helhest is a three-legged horse associated with Hel. The horse figures into a number Danish phrases as recent as the 19th century, such as “he walks like a hel-horse” for a male who “blunders in noisily.” In Schleswig, a phrase is recorded that, in time of plague, “die Hel rides about on a three-legged horse, destroying men.” Jacob Grimm theorizes that the helhest was originally the steed of the goddess Hel." (edited)

Danish folklore consists of folk tales, legends, songs, music, dancing, popular beliefs, myths and traditions communicated by the inhabitants of towns and villa...

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The Askafroa (Swedish: wife of the ash tree)[1] also known as the Danish Askefrue and German Eschenfrau, is a type of legendary creature in Scandinavian and German folklore, similar to the Greek Hamadryads. The Askafroa is the guardian of the ash tree.[1] The Askafroa was thought be a malicious creature which did much damage, and to propitiate her it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.

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The Erlking (German: Erlkönig, "Alder King") is depicted in a number of German poems and ballads as a malevolent creature who haunts forests and carries off travellers to their deaths. The name may be an 18th-century mistranslation of the original Danish word elverkonge, "elf-king". The character is most famous as the antagonist in Goethe's poem Der Erlkönig. In its original form in Scandinavian folklore, the character was a female spirit.