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Based on Nordic folklore.

According to legend its said that trolls also have celebrations during Christmastime.
They celebrate Yule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
And they do it in a very special way.
They do it by lifting up a hill, boulder or sometimes an entire mountain on golden pillars and have a feast under it. There are a lot of stories about this in Scandinavia and the most famous one in Sweden is the one of the huge boulder Maglestenen=The Mangle Stone aka Trollastenen=The Troll Stone that you can find in eastern Scania.Its said that the boulder was thrown there by a big troll who wanted to crush the church of Åhus, trolls hates the sound of church bells. But he didn't aim very well so he missed and the boulder landed outside of Bäckaskog here it still stands today. Short after it landed there the little trolls made it their home and lifted it up every Yule. To join a troll feast and to taste their food and drink is said to be very dangerous because then they can have power one you.
A story about this that was written down 1667 goes like this...

Noble miss Sissela Uhlstand on the castle Trolle-Ljungby one Christmas Eve heard an unusual sound from the Magle Stone that laid not that far away. The stone was strangely enough lifted on pillars, and a large amounts of lights shined from there. She asked that someone of her stable boys should ride there and check what it was all about. For that she promised to give the brave one her best horse. One stable boy said that he wanted to try. When the stable boy came to the stone he saw a huge bunch of little people that danced around and had a great time. Suddenly one of them stood by his side with a horn and a flute. The stable boy was told to drink from the horn and then blow the flute. But a woman warned him with a whisper: he should absolutely not taste the drink. Probably she was a prisoner to the little people, because he noticed that she wanted to help him. The stable boy pored the drink behind his back. A drop landed on the horse that burned of a bit of the skin and it galloped away with the wildest speed. The man had both the flute and the horn with him and the trolls ran after him. it looked hopeless but then he heard the woman call to him: he should not ride on the road but on the field. And immediately the trolls had to take the other way. they couldn't run on the field because it had been ploughed with an iron plough. Iron and steel is said to make the supernatural loose its power. The stable boy made it over the drawbridge in the last moment and the lady of the castle immediately ordered it to be closed. On the other side of the moat stood the little people and asked to get their treasured back. They promised prosperity to both Sissela and her family if they just gave it back. But she rejected them and asked them to go to Hell. Then they instead started to threatened her with bad luck and misfortune. They disappeared but the threats came true. The stable boy died short afterwards and for Sissela the punishment came afterwards and lasted for a very long time.

The moral of this story is to stay away from trolls and that stealing from them is a pretty bad idea.

The Magle Stone still stands where it has been standing since the troll through it there but there doesn't seem to have been any party's there for a while.
Mabey the trolls found another place to celebrate Yule

Here is a photo of it static.panoramio.com/photos/la…

The castle of Trolle-Ljungby also still exists. 3.bp.blogspot.com/_ybSQeWxYLE0…

And believe or not the trolls horn and pipe can be seen in the castle but don't touch them.
Its said that everyone that do it will be affected by the troll curse upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Thought this would be an suitable soundtrack to this painting www.youtube.com/watch?v=r__Dk4…

Merry Yule!

Description
Based on Nordic folklore.

According to legend its said that trolls also have celebrations during Christmastime.
They celebrate Yule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
And they do it in a very special way.
They do it by lifting up a hill, boulder or sometimes an entire mountain on golden pillars and have a feast under it. There are a lot of stories about this in Scandinavia and the most famous one in Sweden is the one of the huge boulder Maglestenen=The Mangle Stone aka Trollastenen=The Troll Stone that you can find in eastern Scania.Its said that the boulder was thrown there by a big troll who wanted to crush the church of Åhus, trolls hates the sound of church bells. But he didn't aim very well so he missed and the boulder landed outside of Bäckaskog here it still stands today. Short after it landed there the little trolls made it their home and lifted it up every Yule. To join a troll feast and to taste their food and drink is said to be very dangerous because then they can have power one you.
A story about this that was written down 1667 goes like this...

Noble miss Sissela Uhlstand on the castle Trolle-Ljungby one Christmas Eve heard an unusual sound from the Magle Stone that laid not that far away. The stone was strangely enough lifted on pillars, and a large amounts of lights shined from there. She asked that someone of her stable boys should ride there and check what it was all about. For that she promised to give the brave one her best horse. One stable boy said that he wanted to try. When the stable boy came to the stone he saw a huge bunch of little people that danced around and had a great time. Suddenly one of them stood by his side with a horn and a flute. The stable boy was told to drink from the horn and then blow the flute. But a woman warned him with a whisper: he should absolutely not taste the drink. Probably she was a prisoner to the little people, because he noticed that she wanted to help him. The stable boy pored the drink behind his back. A drop landed on the horse that burned of a bit of the skin and it galloped away with the wildest speed. The man had both the flute and the horn with him and the trolls ran after him. it looked hopeless but then he heard the woman call to him: he should not ride on the road but on the field. And immediately the trolls had to take the other way. they couldn't run on the field because it had been ploughed with an iron plough. Iron and steel is said to make the supernatural loose its power. The stable boy made it over the drawbridge in the last moment and the lady of the castle immediately ordered it to be closed. On the other side of the moat stood the little people and asked to get their treasured back. They promised prosperity to both Sissela and her family if they just gave it back. But she rejected them and asked them to go to Hell. Then they instead started to threatened her with bad luck and misfortune. They disappeared but the threats came true. The stable boy died short afterwards and for Sissela the punishment came afterwards and lasted for a very long time.

The moral of this story is to stay away from trolls and that stealing from them is a pretty bad idea.

The Magle Stone still stands where it has been standing since the troll through it there but there doesn't seem to have been any party's there for a while.
Mabey the trolls found another place to celebrate Yule

Here is a photo of it static.panoramio.com/photos/la…

The castle of Trolle-Ljungby also still exists. 3.bp.blogspot.com/_ybSQeWxYLE0…

And believe or not the trolls horn and pipe can be seen in the castle but don't touch them.
Its said that everyone that do it will be affected by the troll curse upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Thought this would be an suitable soundtrack to this painting www.youtube.com/watch?v=r__Dk4…

Merry Yule!