More Swedish myths and legends

The Hårga dance. Hårga is a village in the province of Hälsingland, and there is a legend that on a dance there came a new fiddler. When he started to play, the dancers couldn’t stop dancing. Only one girl saw the burning eyes and the cloves and understood it was the Devil himself, so she never danced. She tried to pull out people from the dance, but it was impossible. After dancing all evening the Devil led them out and up on top of the Hårga mountain, and there they danced all night. At dawn it was only their skulls left, and they were still moving round and round until they too was gone, and the top of the mountain was completely flat- which it still is. And if you venture there on a night with a full moon, you can hear the tune the devil played. You can also listen to it on Youtube:

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