The Red Bull

When Sira Thomas Skuleson was pastor at Grenjadarstad, he stayed two servants, one of whom was called Bjarne, but the other Martin. These two servants had a shared bedroom, which was located in the front yard. Bjarne was previously married but lived separated from his wife, and since he was now in love had fallen in love with a girl in the neighborhood, he wanted to He wanted to get rid of his former wife. He therefore resorted to the means that he persuaded a wise man in the Northland to teach him how to a ghost that he could bring to his wife’s neck wanted to send it to her.

Bjarne now began to awaken the returner[8] and licked his Deadly saliva from his face, as the law requires; but he was hardly finished with it when the ghost attacked him; and the end Her struggle was that the returnee overwhelmed Bjarne, so that This recipient came out alive. Bjarne was so much less useful than he expected that he had After this time, Bjarne even attacked him while he was awake and asleep, so that He almost lost his senses and reason. Neither Bjarne Martin still had special rest to sleep at night; Ghost continued to knock on the chamber and held She woke up until Bjarne went down, and then he stayed longer or shorter time outdoors. outside between them than what Bjarne himself told when he came back to Martin.

When this had lasted for some time and Bjarne had lost his mind had almost lost, he turned in his unfortunate state to a wise man and asked him for good advice on how he could free himself from the persecution of the recipient. Man gave him a piece of paper with some characters and bid him one night to go to the church on Grenjadarstad, to see all the To wear vestments and to spend the whole night adorned in this way behind to stop the barriers next to the altar without to move, what he would see, and what he would speak to rail; If it were out with him. Red bulls come that move the tongue between it and the altar would be his life if he were not so clever, To put the bull's eye on the tongue; he would no longer have any reason to fear the ghost’s visitations. to fear.

After receiving this advice, Bjarne went one night to the Church and behaved as it was prescribed. One crowd after another approached him and surrounded the barriers; but he knew only a few of them. They persuaded him in different ways and asked him in good and in bad to open the altar to leave and come out to them. One of those who Bjarne to know was Sira Hallgrim Scheving, Dr. and he tugged at Bjarne to get him out of the barriers. But one group after another disappeared, since they had no way wanted to succeed, to continue Bjarne from the altar.

Then the red bull came to Bjarne; over the barriers and wanted to place them between Bjarne and the altar swing as if he intended to spin him out of there. But Bjarne managed to put the note on his tongue. The bull disappeared, and from that moment to preserved Bjarne nothing more in the church, just as he no longer hears anything from the noticed the returner's afflictions.


Footnotes:

[8] Spectory of a dead person who deals.