If the walker was brave or strong enough to grab the runkavle, they would become wise, and would then gain all knowledge of hidden things and be able to see into the future, with out having to Year Walk ever again. Once somebody had Year Walked for nine years in a row, they would see a mounted man with a runkavle (rune relay) in his mouth. if the walker saw armed men, it meant war was coming. If the walker saw dwarves or elves carrying sheaves, it meant good harvest. It was also believed that if the walker saw upthrown graves in a cemetery, a plague would come the following year. Other times in the year this tradition was possible were on Easter, Tomasmassonatten, Stefansmassonatten, Twelfth Night, Midsummer’s Night, and Lucia Night. Year Walking was believed to have spanned from the Dark Ages to the late 1800s. So, is Year Walking real? It was known to have become rare in the late 19th century and had completely died out by the early 20th. Sorry for the lack of information, this is almost everything I found. It acted as a punisher for the evil, like another form of a devil, but was not known to harm the good. Bad people had to fear the Kyrkogrimen even after they had died. The strangest thing about this creature was it was commonly described in the form of a goat, like that of the Devil. Its purpose was to be the nightly guard at a church, like a caretaker. The Kyrkogrimen was also part of Nordic folklore, and was the most feared creature. This is for sure my favorite of the five creatures, and the most creepy. It is also known to stalk travelers by night, hence “Night Raven” The Nattravnen was a creature that supposedly has holes in its wings so If you look through them you will eventually fall ill and die. They would be forced to roam the Earth until they would force someone to bury them properly. The Mylingen are the phantasmal “incarnations” of unbaptised children. Like the Skogsra, it would lure children to it, and once they climbed onto the horse’s back, it would jump into a brook and drown them. The Backahasten was supposedly a form of Neck, a shapeshifting water spirit, that would usually appear as a white brook horse. She most of the time had long blond hair, was usually naked, and had the tail of a cow or fox. Her purpose was to lure people, mostly young men, into the woods, and then kill them. The Skogsra was known as a seductive forest creature in Scandinavian folklore. This may seem like a lot of info, but this is almost everything you can find in English, the following information is about the creatures involved, and I found moust of this by translating pages from Swedish. The creatures involved are the Skogsra, Backahasten, Mylingen, Nattravnen, and Kirkogrimen. Adding to that, a Year Walk must be done on Christmas Eve, or New Year’s. The basis for Year Walking is that one must lock themselves in a room for 24 hours, deprived of food and drink, and then must walk to the local church three times, and then will be shown the future of the following year, all when avoiding the creatures of Scandinavian folklore. It turns out, there is almost no information on the subject, which intrigued me. Hey guys, today I’m going to be stepping away from creepypastas, and investigating the phenomena of “Year Walking” or “Arsgang”Īfter completing the game “Year Walk” by Simogo, I decided to look into the tradition.
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