Hårgaberget (the Hårga Mountain)

Hälsingland, Bollnäs · Schweden · Berg · Grusel 3/5

The hill where the Devil, disguised as a fiddler, played the local youth to death. The Hårga tune is still said to echo among the trees.

Hårgaberget, the 212 metre hill in Hanebo parish (Bollnäs municipality) in the province of Hälsingland, is home to one of Sweden's most famous legends: the Hårga Dance. As the story goes, the Devil himself came to a dance one evening, disguised as a stranger with a fiddle. He sat down in a pine tree, lifted his bow and played a tune so bewitching that the young people of the district could not stop dancing. They danced all night, danced until their shoes wore through, danced until the flesh fell from their bones, and at last they danced themselves to death. Their souls were lost. The melody lives on as the Hårga tune. It is not wandering ghosts you meet here, but rather the echoes of that cursed dance. Many speak of a heavy, eerie atmosphere on the mountain. It is said you can still hear the Hårga tune echo among the trees, and that the ground where the youngsters fell remains bare and grassless to this day. On the smooth rock slabs of the summit, polished by the inland ice, people still claim to see the marks of the wild dance. The hill is free to visit and offers a wide view over Hälsingland. In summer, guided legend walks are sometimes arranged up the mountain. Source: Swedish folklore, Wikipedia and SVT Nyheter.

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Hårgaberget (the Hårga Mountain) liegt in Hälsingland, Bollnäs, Schweden.

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