The supernatural creatures

The supernatural creatures

Eve was heading for the woodshed when she noticed something out on the water. She moved closer, rubbed her eyes, but her vision were still the same. Out there on the dark water, in the moonlight, there were a woman, floating on the water, spinning.
Eve could see the woman very clearly, but after a few seconds the woman started to fade away. Dissolved up into the fog that surrounded her and suddenly she was gone. Eve rubbed her eyes again. Who had she just seen and how could the woman stay floating over the surface.
This is an old story from the 18^th century printed in the Swedish author Margareta Nybergs book Sannsagor, Sägner och Skrönor.

Forces of nature - wily creatures.
People have always believed in and feared the supernatural. Today some of the first things that comes to mind are UFO’s and alien species, but it hasn’t always been like that. People once believed that the forces of nature were evil and wily living creatures with only one intention, to lure on people to destruction.
Thunders, lightning, earthquakes and cloudbursts were all ruled by a higher power with a hostile attitude to humans. As time went by the powers got more and more impersonated and in the end they became invisible but concrete creatures that put fear and anxiety to the daily life.

Invisible creatures - evil gods
These feelings contributed to change from the forces of natures invisible creatures to evil gods, whose wrath you could appease with sacrifices and precious gifts.
They were supposed to live in the deep watercourse and the dark forests that surrounded the solitary farms, waiting for their chance to lure the people to their deaths.
The forests were full of these invisible creatures, but it would be wrong to say that they all were pure evil. Many of them wouldn’t lay a hand on the humans if they were left alone. One example of these creatures are the elves.

Elves
Elves are small, beautiful and seducing women with transparent wings on their backs. They often wear white dresses and a veil one’s over face, even though they often have been seen naked. The elves are known to be very dangerous. They trick human’s, especially men. If a man takes a hand of an Elf, he will probably be taken away deep in the woods to the kingdom of the Elves. Over there is the Elves lives end of time.

One second can be many years and if the man finally gets out of there, back to his family they are old and he is still a young man.
If you still let yourself be drawn by the elves music and dance you can be lucky and get the night of all nights, but afterwards you’ll probably be an idiot and that’s a big price to pay for some sex, right?!
And the music that you’ve been tempted by still lives in your ear for the rest of your life. The Elves can also give us humans diseases if you tease them. The usual disease is "elves-blaster" and that is the name for the believing that the elves blown on this spot on the body.
The best way to protect yourself against the elves is to carry a coin or a spoon with you but it has to be made of steel.
If you’ve really succeeded to make an elf angry or have been exposed to a disease, you have to sacrifice milk with some gold-dust that’s been sharp from a wedding-ring. Or put a coin in the watercourse that’s nearest the place where you’ve met the elf.

The elves perform their dances at dawn in the fog. The dances are in the air over the ground but still you can see some hard marks in the grass in from of rings, and nothing will ever grow there after the dance. If you have very bad luck and fall asleep with your head inside the ring you’ll be dizzy, if you piss in the ring you’re body fluid will swell and soon you will die.

The elves can also enchant themselves into small animals like forest-mice, butterflies etc. People have often seen the elves like lights and fog.