The Underground Folk in Scandinavian Folklore (De Underjordiske)

"The Underground Folk" is a term used which includes a number of different beings, often categorised together due to their nature of living underground - whether that be under the earth, mountains, sea or lakes.
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Hekser og Troll (1993)
by Åse Moe and Kjellrun Fosmark
"The Changeling" in Troll och människor (1915)
by Selma Lagerlöf
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Пікірлер: 24

  • @niksalazar1687
    @niksalazar16876 жыл бұрын

    Familiar beyond recognition

  • @mamacookie4948
    @mamacookie49485 жыл бұрын

    Read a story about changelings, it was called Little Brothers, forget the authors name though

  • @TheSauronchik
    @TheSauronchik6 жыл бұрын

    Child part was... disturbing)) Thanks!

  • @monika090795
    @monika0907956 жыл бұрын

    As amazing as always :)

  • @hegebakken9198
    @hegebakken91983 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @madcatlover7554
    @madcatlover7554 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know how I stumbled upon this but it’s cool

  • @AnnaBridgland

    @AnnaBridgland

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @MrFredstt
    @MrFredstt6 жыл бұрын

    I love this :)

  • @AnnaBridgland

    @AnnaBridgland

    6 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear it! :)

  • @kristofferlinden6306
    @kristofferlinden63063 жыл бұрын

    Do you have any videos about Vättar??

  • @AnnaBridgland

    @AnnaBridgland

    3 жыл бұрын

    No sorry, I don't have a video on them :)

  • @scrumpmonkey
    @scrumpmonkey6 жыл бұрын

    Good shit

  • @cathleenmoyle1476
    @cathleenmoyle14763 жыл бұрын

    By the way, where did you learn all of this mythology?

  • @AnnaBridgland

    @AnnaBridgland

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mostly through reading and researching various books :)

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnnaBridgland Thank you. Do you remember which books you read?

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AnnaBridgland Thank you. Can I ask, how do you spell the name of the gnome that can walk through earth and stone like air, and is unfriendly? Pusslinger? Pusslinged? I want to do some research on it, and maybe even make a story about it, but I don't know how to spell its name.

  • @XVII_Lvl17

    @XVII_Lvl17

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cathleenmoyle1476 pyssling in Swedish

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    Жыл бұрын

    @@XVII_Lvl17 Thank you.

  • @cathleenmoyle1476
    @cathleenmoyle14763 жыл бұрын

    Why is it that Christianity thinks helpful or neutral pagan spirits are bad? Because they're pagan/not in the bible?

  • @shariedanceinthedark1746
    @shariedanceinthedark1746Ай бұрын

    Lot of similarities between these and the Irish Other Crowd especially the christian origin story

  • @abigailmulembe2679
    @abigailmulembe26795 жыл бұрын

    Oh Christians. We ruin everything

  • @cathleenmoyle1476

    @cathleenmoyle1476

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know, right? Why is it that Christianity thinks helpful or neutral pagan spirits are bad? Because they're pagan/not in the bible?

  • @Khenfu_Cake

    @Khenfu_Cake

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cathleenmoyle1476 The church saw pagan beliefs as a threat to Christianity. So that's why they worked meticulously to create these associations. However Christianity also absorbed many pagan and Greco/Roman traditions and beliefs and this was largely tolerated and even encouraged by the earliest Christian denominations, because it's easier to convince people to convert to a new religion if they get to keep their traditions and superstitions. This is f.ex. why Paul supposedly removed the restrictions on eating pork and shellfish: he missioned towards non-Jewish people and he knew that the strict rules in Judaism would turn non-Jews right off. This is also why Christmas is basically just the Roman holiday of Saturnalia mixed with Northern Germanic pagan winter solstice traditions with a Christian label slapped on to it. When you think about it the Western Christmas rites are pretty much just old pagan rites with a very thin Christian veneer. After all; Saturnalia and winter solstice were major religious holidays and it was easier for Christianity to just rebrand them instead of abolishing them. Fun fact: the early Christian missionaries here in Denmark wanted us to adopt the word Christmas too (in Danish Kristmesse) however they didn't really succeed so we just continued calling it by the old name for the pagan winter solstice: Jul or Yule in English.

  • @Demonmixer

    @Demonmixer

    8 ай бұрын

    Blame the Romans who brouught that shit with them when they conqured us. Think of how many witches were executed for nothing. Fornaligning with Lucifer, who doesn't exist.

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