The Cradle

Kirstine, who lived on Klein-Thveraa, told of her mother, who was clairvoyant that she had once been on the meadow as a child and from there he saw two women coming down the mountain, who had a male being between them who was carrying something. When they approached, she saw that it was a cradle with something red Then they took the man and beat him hard, until he gradually became smaller and finally a dwarf. Then they began to knead him until he was no bigger than a baby Then they laid him in the cradle, spread the red cloth They carried it between them and headed towards the courtyard with everything.

Then her mother's girl told what she had seen But she made a hasty turn, ran home and came before the Huldreweibern to a cradle that she had outside in the yard When the women of Grace saw this, they took the child Immediately out of the cradle again, beat it and pushed it The dwarf was always used in this treatment bigger until he was as he had been originally; then he followed them up the mountain, and there all three of them disappeared.