The Marriage Devil

On Geirmundstad in the Skagefjord there once lived a couple who were did not match; however, it was said that the woman had other man who did his part to maintain the good relationship between her and her husband. With this intention he enchanted a devil to take the form of a dog; It was peat-brown in color, and he sent it to Geirmundstad to to be a marriage devil there.

An old woman was staying with the couple on Geirmundstad; she observed that every time before the couple got into an argument, a peat-brown dog entered the bathroom, walked through the room and snout between the couple on the bed on which they were sitting, and started to howl in a very strange way. When the dog had finished, It was a rule that husband and wife quarrelled. The old woman spoke to the other servants about the precursor of the quarrel of the couple she saw, and they all agreed that that she should tell the housewife her face to see if she cannot bring peace between the spouses by Basically they were very popular with all their people.

Once the old woman, who was able to see ghosts, spoke to her mistress and accused her of the unchristianity of man and woman in such discord with each other. At first the housewife did not want hear about it, but the old woman said that she would certainly try harder would avoid bad quarrels with her husband if she only knew where their disagreement came from. She then told her everything and asked her urged her to yield to her husband in everything, so that she no longer amuse the devil with their ugly quarrel. The housewife promised her that she would do everything in her power.

It happened that the relationship between the spouses changed with every day, because the woman always gave her husband and eventually their life together became very loving.

But then you couldn't see any of the peat brown stuff anymore.