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Almost Home, Almost Human: Freud’s Uncanny and the Valley of Near-Likeness
Just a fun fact; I was telling my mother about this and we talked about the words unheimlich=unhomely, and she told me that in the swedish dialect she…
Jan 15
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The Weight That Cries: Mylingar, Unquiet Infants, and the Work of Proper Burial
The Scandinavian myling belongs to a larger cluster of “dead child” traditions in northern Europe, but it is unusually concrete in its demands.
Jan 12
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Massacre at Sandby Borg: A Nordic Pompeii Mystery Unfolds
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Tolkien and the Kalevala: A Northern Light in Middle-earth
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Trolls of Sweden: Folklore, Myth, and Cultural Echoes
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The soul in Scandinavian mythology
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The Cost of Always Being Right- Why we can't have nice things anymore
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Hounds of God: The Werewolves of Livonia (1550–1720)
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The Christmas Heap and the Sowing Loaf
If you’ve ever spent a December in Sweden, one of the first things you’d notice is how much the season is marked by baking.
Dec 23, 2025
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The Hand of Glory: how a severed hand lit Europe’s darkest imaginations
If you walk into the European past through the door marked “witchcraft,” you will eventually find a severed hand waiting in the half‑light.
Oct 1, 2025
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The Domovoi: Guardian Spirit of Hearth and Home
A hush by the stove
Sep 22, 2025
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Small, Strong, and Short-Tempered: The Tomte in Scandinavian Folklore
Ancient Roots and a Very Old Guardian
Sep 10, 2025
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Beyond the Fairy Hill: Illness, Household Rites, and Later Lives of the Elves
The post “The Secret Histories of Elves and Fairies” traces the layered beginnings of fairies as ancestors, household spirits, queens of Elfland, and…
Sep 6, 2025
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Chapter 8- Winter’s slack tide
By morning the false green had drained from the sky, leaving only a faint veil of real aurora far to the north—pearl-silver and soft as breath.
Aug 16, 2025
Chapter 7 – The Tide’s Call
The spire still smoked when dawn broke.
Aug 16, 2025
Chapter 6 – Village of Empty Eyes
The snow-throttled road spat Karin and Mårten onto a windswept plateau where Fjällvik hunched under a lid of ash-grey cloud.
Aug 16, 2025
Chapter 5 – Gjöll-Bridge Dream
Chapter 4.5 – The Water-One’s Toll
Aug 16, 2025
Chapter 4 – Compass of Bone: Causeway Scene
Chapter 4 – Compass of Bone: Causeway Scene
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Chapter 3 – Rune of Reckoning
Chapter 3 – Rune of Reckoning
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