@jerrykitich3318 hey relax human. I'm not that sort of troll. I just live in a cave under a rock nearby a bridge. I'll let people pass safely as kong as they can mirror my speech as is tradition and leave me my favorite snack of a big fat goat.
@lnbfishing8856 not created them per se, but more like making us aware of the other entities' frequencies. Nature spirits, elementals, interdimentional beings, and such. I'm a huge fan of cryptozoology and folklore and follow a lot of podcasts and stories about bigfoot, fairies, glimmer-man, dogman, chupacabra, skinwalkers, gnomes, and all inbetween.
My Norwegian grandparents told all the kids about the "ditch monster". Instead of saying, "don't play in the irrigation ditch because it can carry you away", they decided to scare the crap out of us. I'm 51 years old, and I still walk down the middle of the road, just in case something really does want to reach out and pull me under. I remember looking at their fairytale books and thinking those stories looked messed up. We grew up being scared of the Boogeyman. He punished naughty children. Werewolves, Dracula, Big Foot, Chupacabra, Sirens, Loch Ness monster, Banshee.
Oh dear, you have really been treated as a Norwegian child. I know it can be traumatic ;) Interesting to learn how our stories and way of upbringing traveled over the sea. Thanks for sharing :):)
We have a small creek running through our little farmland. Our neighboring lady told her kids, and ours, too, about Ågdråga (the river monster, who drags you down in the river). Our kids believed in that monster, this story kept both them and the neighbor kids away from the creek. :D
Scotland has a huge assortment of mythical beasties, especially relating to water; Sprites, Wraiths, Selkies & Kelpies to name a few. One such group Each Uisge (pronounced ee-ach ooshka) translates to water horse. The story goes these creatures come onto land & present themselves as the most beautiful animal. Anyone who sees them are enchanted by their magnificence. The horses appear friendly and so the unsuspecting person will be tempted to climb onto their back to go for a gallop across the moors, but...each uisge has other ideas! The creature's coat is covered in a sticky substance & the rider cannot dismount even if they want to. Each Uisge heads for the deepest loch taking the terrified rider underwater.... where they are devoured.
They have a creature who lives in the bent tubes of toilets. This creature comes out, and drags Norwegian children down, if they are bad. There was an urban myth of the suicide girl from the seventies. Suicide is problem in Norway, like everywhere. Back in the late seventies, there was spat of suicides, of young men who had no friends, of families. It was said, these men were seen with a pretty young girl, like she was their girlfriend. It was thought, she was crazy girl, killing men. There is older Norwegian urban myth of the Visitor. In the long nights of Norwegian winters, people will find themselves working late, or they will be home alone. Someone will knock on door, and want in the building. They are not frightening, but they are odd. It's said, the visitor will some times look like an older woman, with little white dog. She will knock, and want in the building. The visitor will want in, and have a bad excuse, like "It's her home, and you have to let her in." It doesn't always look like a old woman. Sometimes it looks like a child, but they always want in. You never let them in, because the will walk in the other room, or go in a closet, and then vanish. The bad part is, if they come in, something bad will happen in that building, or home. I knew more Norwegian urban myths, but I forgot them. Sorry.
yes, even the Sami used to scare their little kids with tales of the Stallo or Juovlagállát, the human looking troll ... and they even told the kids the Northern LIghts were coming to get them ... So the children would stay closer to home and be safe!
That nose is very... prominent! All the better to smell their victims 😉 Honestly, trolls are among my favorite mythological creatures. Mads is also among my favorite mythological creatures. We can't see him, but his lack of imagination is legendary.
I grew up next to Salem Ma.US. A lot of people still believe in witches. It's a very big thing there. On Halloween many thousands go to Salem. I grew up down the street from the Hale House in Beverly. It's Reverend hung "witches". Most of your trolls are creepy but the sad old troll sitting on the rock made me want to feed him hot soup! Thanks Guys, I will check out some of your links.
A favorite from my spot in the world was the legend of Sleepy Hollow. A Hessian soldier who lost his head from a cannon ball is cursed to roam the forests and the roads of New York State, looking for his head. If he finds you, since he still is evil, he will take off your head.
In Patogonia, Argentina, we have our own version of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Ours is called Nahuelito and it's supposed to live in the Nahuel Huapi Lake. It's like a giant snake with a hump.
You know...in a pandemic we’re supposed to run for the hills, the woods, social distance AWAY from people. What you are doing is very unfair. Never mind because in a dream I had the afterlife is an animal kingdom. You are helped across a perilous, innocuous-looking stream by one of your pre-deceased pets. Whomever you loved and cared for. They protect and defend you in this after-life animal kingdom...complete with wars among the animal groups. If you did not have pets, you remain where everyone begins...on the body farm side of the stream. So..my advice...hold those pets near. Coo sweet nothings to them. Make them remember you and never forget you. Go get another pet. One of the same or different. And prepare. 🦍🐈🐓🦣🦝🐿🐀🐁🦃🦒🐖🦔🦙🐎🦏🐘
I live on the east coast of Canada, plenty of haunting stories, but the tale that always gives me shivers is the Indigenous tale of the Wendigo. This is a creature whose appetite for human flesh cannot be satiated.
I loved your stories! The 1st troll looked real enough to me. The landscape is so beautiful. Looking forward to your next spooky story. Love to both of you. 😉🥰🙂❤❤
My son was only about a year old, when we were in Norway. We went up Mt Ulriken, and they have a big carved troll there- he was terrified! He was a bigger fan of the fish stew.
Never been afraid of the dark or even going through the woods at night either, but it's a lot more fun when it's thundering and lightning, i think i'm a bit of a dark elf but i just can't be sure!!!!
Also Wendegos. If they touch you, your body turns into a monster body. You gradually loose your memory and personality. The wendego's mindless, empty violence takes over and you become a vector for the contagion or curse, or whatever it is.
Much respect to your wonderful RU-vid channel! I love Norwegian humour, history, culture, cuisine (for the most part, that is), geography, and basically all that has to do with Norway! I also met and befriended Norwegians when I was younger (they are literally the best people I had the chance to bond in my life and I miss them so much), and can speak some Norwegian myself. You're doing a great work here! Keep up the good work! Beste hilsener fra Romania! 🙂 P.S. 10:04 - looks like Gollum to me. At 11:50, by the way, what if Huldra has some feelings herself? That might not be the nicest behaviour to her, you know...😕
This was a superstition with really terrible consequenses. People in old times who had children with syndromes and diseases, often times would beat the poor babies in the hope that the Huldra and her people, the underground people, would feel sorry for their changeling and swap it back for the real child of the villagers.
Wow så fint! This video was amazing! I love mythology and the way you told the stories was really captivating! Love it! I really need to get the book you were reading from! Looks amazing with those drawings :) Maybe I can travel to Norway this summer and buy it in a bookstore!
Thus coming winter I'm going to Norway for the first time ever. I'm going to Finland and Sweden. So I decided to finally go to Norge for a couple days. It'll be my first time ever in Norway. The movie Troll Jegeren was great.
Thanks Guys! Love mythology. Also the movie Troll hunter was AWESOME. The last one was a real bummer. The only one I can think in United States is big foot.❤❤ love your videos. ❤❤
Draugen has a brother here in America in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is called the Under Toad. (under tow) My parents made sure that all us kids knew that the Under Toad would take us away and drown us if we got too far out while swimming.
That is a beautiful fairy tale book you have, I love the engravings. For a truly terrifying legend from my region, there is an native oral story/ history about "the battle between thunderbird and whale". The tale is the preservation of knowledge about tsunamis with warnings like if the sea unusually far out, head for high ground. The myth teaches all those things that people need to know, living along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where about every 250-400 years there is a giant earthquake and huge tsunami. Currently the last big quake was in 1700.
Super fun video! I am from Slovakia, from the west. There is an area very close to me that is full of scary legends. It's a forest area called "Tribeč" and there have been many stories about paranormal activity and people have disappeared there mysteriously. Some people say that it's because of the mine holes which get covered with leaves and snow and when a person falls there, that's their death.
A new video! Well, new to me, since -- somehow -- my notification bell was turned off. It's back on again now. So time to settle in and watch the spooooooooky Norwegian trolls. Good for a rainy Ohio night. Check your notification bells, everyone! There's a troll out there who's turning them off!!
How about Ogopogo is a lake monster said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. I have heard about it but .... Sort of a Lochness creature. How did you guys make out with your inoculations? Everyone good?
We have a Sasquatch but he usually runs away, also trolls under the bridge but they just laugh and play. The scary creatures are real, like grizzly bears. 🇨🇦
ii liketo read about the Fae's relation to revenants and werewolfs and shamanic/spiritual's parasiric subtle-body and soul flight (is actually the energy-form of the draugr, which through "drauen*", is speculated to be linked to the name "Kraken"") practitioners (prototype for the modern vampires) such as the Loup-garou and the slavic obour. Arith Harger explain it well in his "shmanic vampire" video.
In India there are the Dakinis - mother goddesses and guardians of the path. They are dressed in glowing luminous gowns and they hide behind a dark gray green masks their faces ( like the gorgon mask )because they are too beautiful for a seeker to see. To see one is to receive a blessing on your path. They carry a staff or wand.
Just like Mads did and wanted me to talk about. I grew up with Draugen. So that's why we talked about him. Surprised with your knowledge about Nøkken :):)
@@YOURWAY2NORWAY i know about Askeladden too, from watching Norwegian kids' stories in youtube videos in my attempt to learn the language. And the nokk I learned of by watching The Making of Frozen 2 on Disney Plus. And I just found a trailer on RU-vid for a movie in Norwegian called Askeladden. The trailer video has subtitles in norsk so I can sorta understand what they are saying. Interesting. I will have to try to find the whole movie online so I can watch it. Hopefully on a plarform where I can play it a little slower so I can read the subtitles!
Thanks for the scary creatures video! Fun!! Everything beautiful is dangerous, it seems. The only mythical creature here in the US that was spoken of was the Sand Man. If you didn't go to sleep, he may harm you. If he visited you and you were already asleep, you were lucky that he only dropped some sand into your eyes.
I remembered my grandma 🤶used to tell stories about two beasts 🧙🧟.One of them is bad🧟 ,he is half human and small creature,he eats children , The other beast 🧙 is a hairy big female beast who is the good one . In each story the good beast 🧙makes tricks to catch the bad one 🧟 and lock him in a box forever ⚰️ . Even though it was been told to us that it's not allowed to listen to fairy tail cause it's from the devil 👹 , but I didn't care ,i begged my grandma to tell these stories to me every time I visited her 😍
The Oscar for best director is.... Mads!! 🎉 And for the best actor... Ronald 🎊 Looks like you had a great time filming the video. OMG the broom, priceless!!! 🤣👀
We have scorpions, in Arizona and live in constant fear of close contact. We always wear shoes, never touch anything we can’t see, and shake packages, vigorously, after deliveries. But they will still get some people. I found one on the bed beside me, once. Never moved so fast in my life.
@@loadingmikke7451 Depends on the scorpion, and the victim. My dad and sister in law have both been stung. After intense pain for about 24 hours, they were fine. The very young, elderly and ill are at most risk.
Apparently trolls are too stupid to realize that occupied cabins are troll cafes. :D Oh, I thought the Huldra only lived at Kjosfossen during tourist season. Uh-oh, Nøkken will be after your Nikon. That was great fun. I love the old illustrations. Stories that were meant to scare the living daylights out of children. We were terrified of the creatures and loved the stories when we were kids.
Roland and Mads you guys are funny. I'm glad to see you guys still have snow today than we were 23 degrees F. There is no snow there is no freezing rain it's bearable. The only methodology I have is bigfoot.
My Grandmother Susanna Dahl Wouldn't even talk about trolls because they were so evil And of course I could never bring my 70s Troll Dolls with me when i stayed with my Grandmom.. My Grandpa was cool..he laughed at the demon trolls
We weren't raised with mythological charactars, but as a child I invented them myself: When I was in bed, I had to hide under the blanket when a car passed the house and the headlights shone into my bedroom. It was a very bad man, who drove past the houses. He ate all the parts of the children he could see, when he searched the bedrooms with his flashlight. If he saw f.i. your hand: hand gone! I have slept with my head under the blanket for years. Also, there were two witches living in my parents bedroom. They looked exactly the same, which was a problem, because one was good and the other bad, but you never knew which one you had in front of you. In the Netherlands we have vrouw Holle, who lives in a world you can reach when you fall into a well. But she is an old women and doesn't have a tail, as far as I know. We have all sorts of mythical creatures that are common in Europe, but no trolls. We have the 'witte wieven', white ghostlike women who come out at night. They can fly. There are also 'dwaallichtjes' in the swamps, lights that try to trick you in leaving the path, so that you will drown in the swamp. They are the souls of unborn or unbaptised children. When a person has totally wrong ideas, we also call him (usually a him of course 😜) a 'dwaallicht' because he wil lead his followers the wrong way.
I am from UK but now live in Norway and your channel is brilliant.... soooo true and funny! - I would love to see you do a street survey asking people if they understand the 'give way to the right' on Norwegian roads, because my experience is that most do not know when to give way and when not to.....so many times I have seen cars stop and look at each other, as if you say "do you have right of way or do I" .....
Huldra is part of a larger ''group'' of mythological creatures in Norway known as ''Hulderfolket'' (Hulder people) or ''De underjordiske'' (the undergrounders). They may or may not be cathegorised as part of some ''troll'' family, since trolls aren't one specific thing, it's different kind of trolls and various troll species. But ''De underjordiske'' or ''Hulderfolket'' are forest creatures and spirits living inside the mountains and underneath the ground. Many of them can be looked as something similar to gnomes or goblins in appearance.
Good luck with Joe "I don't know where I am or what's going on" Biden and Kamala "keeps men in prison beyond their sentence because I love slave labor" Harris.
Is this why Norwegian American women are always obsessed with escaping and hiking in the woods? When I feel sad or overwhelmed in life -- I find myself leaving to a national park and wandering the woods with the deer and wild horses for hr's. Mine in 30 mins from me. After I come home in peace. My in-laws think it is quite weird, but I can not imagine a world where I cannot find a quiet forest.
Haha, you are so Norwegian. And then everything you write is natural, typical and yes, the right solution for everything. Wierd!?? Nope, you are an average Norwegian. Check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g__1ncOsnrY.html
Great video, Guys! One of your best. In eastern NC, we have the Sea Hag, a witch-like creature that inhabits the waterways on the coast. She’s always hungry for children who have misbehaved and are outside after dark when they are supposed to be inside. She is stooped over, thin with long arms and claw-like hands. The feature that most identifies her is her wild mass of tangled hair. She is very scary and definitely someone to stay away from. I think if Mads asked her out, she would accept!
Ronald beware of the evil Yellow snow cone of the forest! It's usually gifted to you by a spirit appearing as a friend. Even someone who could look like Mads. He'll say it's a lemon flavored snow cone, but it's NOT! Run Away... Run Away! ;p lol
In belgium we have 'de lange wapper'. It's an old story of a man that appears in the night and chases drunk men to their homes. In the begining he has a normal height but with each step he gets taller and taller when chasing his victim. When the drunk man arrives home and goes to bed, the 'lange wapper' will be so tall that he wil look trough the window of the drunk mans bedroom. Then he says that if the man got drunk one more time he will break his neck. So it was just a funny story that was created to scare drunk people, and to stop them from drinking.
Moody, haunting, scary, dramatic. And that's just Ronald! I'd be nervous out there in those twilight woods, you never know what's around the next tree. There are lots of stories of different creatures around the US. Like Bigfoot. Where I live, we have a local legend about "Chessie," a Loch Ness-like being that lives in the Chesapeake Bay!🦕 So far I've only seen whales, dolphins and surfacing submarines but I haven't given up on seeing Chessie someday!
I love baddie Maddie's voice. Thanks for all your Norsk/Svenske advice... we have the occasional sinister troll in amerika Bigfoot had been seen with a cow tail also.(not since the 19th C though.) Love you guys
I need that book. Where can I purchase one? I don't care if it's Norwegian. I just love obscure books. I wish The Fairy Faith was still on YT because you'd love that documentary! There is this YT channel EVERYONE needs to check out, Scary Fairy Godmother. They're all stories/experiences that were sent in and she reads the story. It's a great channel like this one :D
Cool, will check it out. It's an old book. But you can try to find it. The title is: Theodor Kittelsen "I tekst, tegning og malerier" Published in 1945 by Gyldendal. Thanks for sharing. Good luck with the book :):)
Great video guys! My ancestry is mostly Swedish, and I'll bet anything that the Swedes probably share many of these tales. Theodore Kittelsen's art is amazingly, and chilling!😬😬
Hulda sounds like an interesting character... I’m reminded of the witch/ ghost who exists in South Indian mythology.. her name is Mohini and she is a seductress whose stories are quite similar to Hulda’s. Supernatural characters are fun to read 😃 Good timepass.. Here is a link: www.wired.com/2013/04/a-directory-of-indian-supernatural-entities/
Here in Flanders, we have many stories about "kwelgeesten" (kwellen = to torment and geest = ghost). With different names, depending on the region. One of them looks like a large hideous black dog. He lurks away in the nights and jumps on the backs of unaware victims. Then the unfortunate victim is forced to carry him on his back until the next crossroad.
I live in Washington state on the west coast of the U.S. we are in the epicenter of BIGFOOT sightings and the organization that researches BIGFOOT is located here. There are BIGFOOT related things all over the state, road signs, businesses, etc. Even our state department of transportation in Washington state on its website at one time had to issue an alert that a purported Bigfoot sighting along a freeway was someone playing a prank with a large Bigfoot cutout.
