The Nisse at the Rich Farmer's in Alskog

Gotland · Sverige · Site of legend

A little red-capped servant worked unseen on the farm – but the priest forced the nisse out and showed his wages turned to clots of blood.

At Alskog a rich farmer was believed to keep a nisse that drew wealth to the farm. When the priest visited he saw a small boy scrubbing the floor, and the farmer admitted a servant who would not show himself. The priest found the nisse's wages – food turned to clots of blood, buried under the gatepost – and then forced him to become a roaring lion and rush out through a needle-hole in the window lead, so the roofs trembled.

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Hvor ligger The Nisse at the Rich Farmer's in Alskog?

The Nisse at the Rich Farmer's in Alskog ligger i Gotland, Sverige.

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