Skrat
In folklore, a Skrat is a mischievous creature often possessing gold and other riches. Stories about Skrats often revolve around the Skrat being tricked out of its treasure or else the Skrat fooling the treasure seeker by unexpectedly making the treasure disappear. Skrats can aid farmers with whom they are living, although this is usually at the expense of the farmer's neighbours from whom they steal. In Scandinavian mythology the Skrat is a form of Myling. Estonian stories have the Skrat in the form of a dragon. Skrats can change form and appear as cats, chickens, or even humans. The Skrat is also found in German and Slovenian folklore.James Hastings and John A. Selbie, ''Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics'', Part 8, p.628, Kessinger Publishing, 2003 . References {{reflist European legendary creatures ...
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Myling
In Scandinavian folklore, the mylingar were the phantasmal incarnations of the souls of children that had been forced to roam the earth until they could persuade someone (or otherwise cause enough of a ruckus to make their wishes known) to bury them properly. Lore The myling comes into existence when a child is unwanted and therefore killed by its mother. It can be heard singing in the night, thereby revealing the mother's crime. Ways to help the myling is to give it a name or to find the corpse and bury it in holy soil. The myling (also known as ''utburd'' in Norwegian and ''ihtiriekko'', ''liekkiö'' or ''sikiö'' in Finnish) is said to chase lone wanderers at night and jump on their backs, demanding to be carried to the graveyard so they can rest in hallowed ground. Mylings are thought to be enormous and apparently grow heavier as they near the graveyard, to the point where any person carrying one (or more) could sink into the soil. If one should prove unable to make it ...
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