[[beings-norse]] # Huldrefolket "The Underground Folk" • Folk "people" from southeast Norway (around clearance cairns) who live parallel lives to humans (have families, go to church, etc) - Usually inhabit abandoned structures (abandoned due to the Black Death) - If you hear church-bells in the forest, it's them having mass ○ Female: Huldra § Beautiful § Usually with cattle herds □ Have a cow's tail, hidden in their skirt § If a man married one it marked his family for generations to come ○ Male § Seem like normal men § On Saturday nights they court dairy maids living on summer farms near cairn fields § If a girl married one, they would have to move to their farm underground (where they would be unhappy, due to being separated from family) → Waldgeist/Waldfrau Fairies