The Scandinavian Fossegrim was a male water spirit who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women, men and children to drown in lakes or streams. The Fossegrim could teach one to play, for a price. If you brought him a large, good piece of meet, he would teach you everything he could. However, if you cheated him, and gave him only the bad parts, he would teach you only how to tune your fiddle, but not how to play it.
Many famous norwegian fiddlers are said to be taught of the fossegrim.
Näcken and Fossegrimen have some similar qualities (tricking people into drowning ) But in Norway, we also have a creature called Nøkken (see the similarity). While Nøkken is portrayed as a lake dweller; either a white mare tricking people onto it's back to drown them or as a nude man playing the fiddle to trick people into the water, Fossegrimen is a creature (often nude too), who dwells in waterfalls, playing violins. Nøkken is mostly evil, while Fossegrimen can be both.
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something like that i want to do too, but about Romanian mythology witch is also full of legends and traditions !
keep up the good work
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That being said; the fossegrim gvies me ideas, that I have no talent to express
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While Nøkken is portrayed as a lake dweller; either a white mare tricking people onto it's back to drown them or as a nude man playing the fiddle to trick people into the water, Fossegrimen is a creature (often nude too), who dwells in waterfalls, playing violins.
Nøkken is mostly evil, while Fossegrimen can be both.
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