Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
There is one particularly spooky creature called "Huldran" who looks like a beautiful woman from the front, but from the back she looks like a rotten tree-trunk... She has very long hair and her objective is to lure men deep into the forest and imprison them in her caves inside the mountains.
Scary, indeed. And her name sounds somewhat Tolkien-esque to me. I went and looked up "Swedish folklore" in Wikipedia - lots of interesting stuff! And it looks like Swedish folklore is similar to English, which is not surprising: trolls, giants, dwarves, elves, kelpie. Kraken! And I remember reading about Odin, Thor, and also about nisse. I had this Big Book of Christmas as a kid and it had stories about nisse in it as well.

Because of their common Germanic origin, Scandinavian folklore shows a large correspondence with folklores elsewhere, such as in England and Germany among others.