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I have heard that one before The storytelling tradition was (and is) strong in many parts of Sweden. Especially in rural parts of the north, where the winter was long and many nights was spent inside telling stories, many of them horror stories. I read the one you posted from Medelpad about the forest sprite, my grandmother heard many similar stories when she was young. How these forest sprites (in the north called Vittra) could kidnap kids. She told me how scared she was as a kid when she was going to milk the cows, she always ran back to the house.
I have some stories I have heard that I can write down later. We had a funny teacher in the carpenting class of my middle school, everytime someone mentioned "can't you tell us about tap-dancing Jerker today?" he would stop the class and gather everyone. Take up some papers with the story written in it and tell the story for us.
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