The Whirlwind in the Rye on Ormsö

Finland · Natural site

Like a serpent the deadly whirlwind tore through the field - all it touched fell.

On Ormsö they tell of a dark power that swept across the fields in the shape of a whirlwind, coiling like a serpent through the rye. The harvesters threw themselves aside, for everything it struck was killed; two black oxen dropped dead at once. A fisherman caught unawares was left paralysed and had to be carried home before he was cured by smoking with feathers and herbs.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.