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Tomte and Vรคttar, Swedish farm folklore entities

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For centuries and perhaps millennia, Swedish farmers have shared tales of supernatural creatures inhabiting their farms. Since the nineteenth century, folklorists have begun to study these stories, gathering information on the mysterious entities, traditions and rituals connected to them.

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At the origins of Laรนro, the Salento nightmare sprite

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There are those who see in Laรนro Salentino, even starting from the etymology, the descendant of the ancient Lare, the Roman domestic spirit. But more generally the points of contact with other supernatural entities of the Mediterranean tradition stand out, from the Nightmare to the Munaciello, from the Genius Cucullato to the Telesforo.

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The witches of Alicudi: notes of Aeolian folklore

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In the popular Aeolian tradition the name of Alicudi has always been associated with fantastic and mysterious stories: 'mahare'(witches) who fly to Palermo or even Africa, human beings who turn into animals, fishermen who know magic formulas to' cut 'the sea trumpets, fortune tellers, oracles and other enigmatic presences.

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