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Sex and Death
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| Kittelsen. The Nix, 1904. Section. |
What?
Even when they built the White House at Washington, the Scotch masons and slaves that built it together, shared hookers from the only brothel set up on those premises. United they were in work and free time and may have contributed to the very special atmosphere of the White House - which was built by scotchmen and slaves by a brothel.Sir Richard Burton translated among other things The Perfumed Garden. It deals with love-making. As for marriage partners, they should be favourable and good for you, and do not copy the Bible's David.
Murder will out
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David: "As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! He must pay for that lamb, because he did such a thing and had no pity."
Nathan said to David, "You are the man! You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. [2 Samuel 12:6-9, passim]
Murder by stealth is something too.
Death by drowning
Birgit Herzberg Johnsen writes about supernatural beings in the Norwegian tradition:Many of the legends are connected with the sea. There are many about the sea monster . . . Otherwise there are tales about various creatures of the sea, the most common being about the sea ghost, Draugen. He is considered to be the ghost of someone who has drowned or the personification of all who have died at sea. Draugen is [very often] described as a headless fisherman dressed in oilskins. He sails the seas in half a boat and wails when someone is about to drown.
In inland lakes and rivers lives the river sprite or Nixie. He . . . tries to lure people into the water with him. Like Draugen, he also gives warning of when someone is about to drown. He represents what is dangerous and unpleasant about water . . .
Specifically Norwegian traditions are legends about the spirit which plays the fiddle, (Fossegrimen), who lives in waterfalls and who can teach would-be fiddlers how to play . . . Great numbers of mythical creatures inhabit the mountains and forests, and legends about landmarks created by troll exist all over the country. Sometimes the trolls themselves remain standing in stone . . . The pixies, (haugfolket), or the subterraneans, (de underjordiske), undoubtedly play the biggest role in Norwegian legend. They consist of a large group of supernatural beings (vetter). They have many names . . . Legend has it that these people are the descendants of the children that Eve hid from God . . . Another legend tells that those who live underground were angels whom the Lord had expelled from paradise.
Those who live underground are usually considered as being of a lesser order than humankind, and they are envious of the people who are able to live out in the sunlight (i solheimen). They are often smaller than humans, and they dress in blue or grey. Their world is much like the world of humans . . . they live underground or inside mountains, and many legends tell how one can hear them from inside the mountain or about coming across them above ground, seeing their flocks or similar stories. Henrik Ibsen used material from such legends in his "Peer Gynt". The huldre-people can enter into our world and so can the things they own . . .
Of the house spirits which follow the clan or the farm, the gnomelike nisse is the focus of a rich tradition of stories. He fights nisser from other farms . . . [Link]
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