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The Ghost Hood

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Å. Eskil Avenstrup
Icelandic Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Axel Juncker Publishing, Berlin
1919
Iceland
The Ghost Hood: haunting, concealment, fear, death, revelation, folklore
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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The Ghost Hood

In a place where a church is located, one of them lived among others Young society and a girl. Girls often frightened, but she was so used to it that she was no longer frightened; for whatever she saw, she believed But always that he was who wants to make her fear.

Once it happened that laundry was washed and a lot underneath white nightcaps, which were often worn at that time. In the evening, the Girls asked to get the laundry from the churchyard. started to collect the laundry. she saw that a white ghost was sitting on one of the graves. Then she thought that the servant wanted to start again. tore the hood from the ghost, because she believed that the journeyman had put on one of the hoods and said: »You will not succeed this time, to scare me! ”Then she went into the laundry, but inside Was the society.

Now the laundry was recounted, and there was one hood too many, the The girl was terrified in the inside. Spirit on the grave, and you didn't know what to do; No one dared to bring him the hood, and so they sent the neighborhood to get good advice. It was an old man in the area, who said that it was unavoidable that this Case of bad consequences if the girl did not herself the spirit Hood would bring it in silence in the presence of many people On the head. Spirit to put on the hood, and she also went there, the heart in the neck, put the hat on the head on the head and said when she was with it was finished: »Are you satisfied now?« But the spirit turned around, hit her and said: »Yes, are you happy too?« And with that, he descended into the grave. The girl fell from the blow, and the People ran and picked her up, but she was dead.

But the journeyman was reprimanded because he frightened her so often because it was believed that he was the real cause of the of all the misfortune. Then he stopped scaring people. And so this story is over.

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