Grandmother's Encounters with Skam, Färgelanda

Dalsland · Sweden · Site of legend

She saw the fiend riding a spinning-wheel with fire from its throat, a man on a bicycle.

In Färgelanda a man told of his grandmother, born 1805, who came home one evening terrified, saying she had met Skam riding a spinning-wheel with fire from its throat. It turned out to be a man on a bicycle with a lit cigar. Another time she thought she had seen the fiend with a cat's head in the stream, though her father said it was an otter.

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Where is Grandmother's Encounters with Skam, Färgelanda located?

Grandmother's Encounters with Skam, Färgelanda is in Dalsland, Sweden.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.