Post by Troldmand Bjorn on Nov 27, 2016 12:22:49 GMT -6
Fjandi - Fiend (powerful demons)
Jotunn – giant
Bøyg – troll ( this is the original Norse word, the word troll actually comes from the old Middle High German and came into use in the late Scandinavian Iron Age)
Bysen – elemental spirit (sometimes looking gnome-like)
Nøkk or definite: Nøkken – shape-shifting water spirits
Rå - a keeper or warden of a particular location or landform. The different species of rå are sometimes distinguished according to the different spheres of nature with which they were connected, such as skogsrå or huldra (forest), sjörå (freshwater) or havsrå (saltwater), and bergsrå (mountains).
Deildegast - a type of ghost connected with the sanctity of border-stones, and what happened to those who dared to move them
Haugbúi – ghost
Draugr or Wiedergänger (Old German) (also Widergänger - directly translating to "again walker") in English, refers to different zombie phenomena from different cultural areas. The word means "one who walks again" (literally Again-Walker), the term is in German Language, and the core of the wiedergänger myth is the concept of a supernatural being or the spirit of the deceased, who - often in the form of a physical phenomenon - return (as "undead") to the world of the living.
Bys - a wraith-like ghost who has done some crime within its human lifetime, and is therefore sentenced to wander the earth forever
Gjenganger - (Norwegian: Gjenganger/Gjenferd/Attergangar Danish: Genganger/Genfærd Swedish: Gengångare) is the term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave
Utburd (also Myling) - phantasmal incarnations of the souls of children who were abused or abandoned and left to die by parents not wanting them or unable to care for them and left in the woods or in other remote places, where death is almost certain to befall them. It is believed that the ghosts of these children will then haunt the place where they had died or, as told of in countless stories, the dwellings of their killers. This continued after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and perhaps even more so, when children born out of wedlock would often meet their demise, due to the harsh repercussions from the Church.
The vardøger, vardøgr or varsel is a spirit predecessor, from Scandinavian folklore. Stories typically include instances that are nearly déjà vu in substance, but in reverse, where a spirit with the subject's footsteps, voice, scent, or appearance and overall demeanor precedes them in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person before the person physically arrives. This bears a subtle difference from a doppelgänger, with a less sinister connotation. It has been likened to being a phantom double, or form of bilocation.
Jotunn – giant
Bøyg – troll ( this is the original Norse word, the word troll actually comes from the old Middle High German and came into use in the late Scandinavian Iron Age)
Bysen – elemental spirit (sometimes looking gnome-like)
Nøkk or definite: Nøkken – shape-shifting water spirits
Rå - a keeper or warden of a particular location or landform. The different species of rå are sometimes distinguished according to the different spheres of nature with which they were connected, such as skogsrå or huldra (forest), sjörå (freshwater) or havsrå (saltwater), and bergsrå (mountains).
Deildegast - a type of ghost connected with the sanctity of border-stones, and what happened to those who dared to move them
Haugbúi – ghost
Draugr or Wiedergänger (Old German) (also Widergänger - directly translating to "again walker") in English, refers to different zombie phenomena from different cultural areas. The word means "one who walks again" (literally Again-Walker), the term is in German Language, and the core of the wiedergänger myth is the concept of a supernatural being or the spirit of the deceased, who - often in the form of a physical phenomenon - return (as "undead") to the world of the living.
Bys - a wraith-like ghost who has done some crime within its human lifetime, and is therefore sentenced to wander the earth forever
Gjenganger - (Norwegian: Gjenganger/Gjenferd/Attergangar Danish: Genganger/Genfærd Swedish: Gengångare) is the term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave
Utburd (also Myling) - phantasmal incarnations of the souls of children who were abused or abandoned and left to die by parents not wanting them or unable to care for them and left in the woods or in other remote places, where death is almost certain to befall them. It is believed that the ghosts of these children will then haunt the place where they had died or, as told of in countless stories, the dwellings of their killers. This continued after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and perhaps even more so, when children born out of wedlock would often meet their demise, due to the harsh repercussions from the Church.
The vardøger, vardøgr or varsel is a spirit predecessor, from Scandinavian folklore. Stories typically include instances that are nearly déjà vu in substance, but in reverse, where a spirit with the subject's footsteps, voice, scent, or appearance and overall demeanor precedes them in a location or activity, resulting in witnesses believing they've seen or heard the actual person before the person physically arrives. This bears a subtle difference from a doppelgänger, with a less sinister connotation. It has been likened to being a phantom double, or form of bilocation.