Danish folklore

Huldra Norse Mythology

The Helhesten. This danish spirit was once an ordinary horse, who was buried alive on the grounds of a church, condemned to guard the graveyard for eter... Helhesten

A collection of tales that grew out of the sprawling flatlands, the oozing fjords, the dark forests and the waves that crash on the shores of Denmark. How a Viking ship carried a future king into Roskilde Fjord, how a mermaid’s laughter brought fortunes to her fisherman host, how the people of Lolland survived a […]

The Askafroa (Swedish: wife of the ash tree)[1] also known as the Danish Askefrue and German Eschenfrau, is a type of legendary creature in Scandinavian and German folklore, similar to the Greek Hamadryads. The Askafroa is the guardian of the ash tree.[1] The Askafroa was thought be a malicious creature which did much damage, and to propitiate her it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.

Der Erlkönig by Kaysha Siemens

Tatteredbanners: "In Danish folklore, a helhest is a three-legged horse associated with Hel. The horse figures into a number Danish phrases as recent as the 19th century, such as “he walks like a hel-horse” for a male who “blunders in noisily.” In Schleswig, a phrase is recorded that, in time of plague, “die Hel rides about on a three-legged horse, destroying men.” Jacob Grimm theorizes that the helhest was originally the steed of the goddess Hel." (edited)

**The long horse in Danish folklore.** (Den lange hest or the bækhesten Scania) Also called the Riverman’s horse. (Åmanden) The legend of the water horse...

Sheilah Beckett, the real ending to The Little Mermaid