The Boy Who Danced to Death (Elverum)

Hedmark · Norway · Site of legend

A boy in Strandbygda could never get enough of dancing — until a beautiful stranger asked him to dance and he dropped dead.

Near Elverum they tell of a boy who could never get enough of dancing and who mocked an old woman at the dance. Soon after, a beautiful stranger girl entered, and the boy wanted only to dance with her, wilder and wilder. People had never seen the like. When the dance finally stopped he sank to the floor, dead — and the strange girl had vanished in an instant.

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The Boy Who Danced to Death (Elverum) is in Hedmark, Norway.

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