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Sweden

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Sweden documented in this atlas: Myling e utburd. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from.

Myling e utburd B
The ghost of a newborn killed or exposed by its mother, unbaptised and therefore without burial in consecrated ground. It manifests itself with an insistent crying at the spot where the body was abandoned, a stony patch, a root,…

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