Asp the Thief and the Art at the Church Door, Rumskulla

Småland · Sweden · Church

The notorious Asp offered to teach his arts — but first you had to circle the church three times and soak a blade of grass in your own blood.

In Rumskulla people remembered Asp, a notorious thief said to know more than other men. According to the legend, anyone wishing to learn his arts had to walk three times counterclockwise around the church on three Thursday mornings, take a particular blade of grass, wet it in blood from his ring finger, and push it into the keyhole of the church door. Then the master of secrets himself would appear. Yet Asp was not all mischief — once he is said to have merely laid his hand on a lock to make a jammed writing-desk flap spring open by itself.

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Asp the Thief and the Art at the Church Door, Rumskulla is in Småland, Sweden.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.