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In a Norwegian story recorded in 1909, Sterke Nils watched a man struggle up through the waters of Svartetjørn in Telemark.
In the autumn of 1902, Danish immigrants living around Omaha, Nebraska, began discussing a move to the Canadian Prairies.
When Edvard Andersson recalled the Easter masquerades of his youth in Värmland, the disguises were designed to fool the neighbours.
An Icelandic ghost story recorded in nineteenth-century Canada begins with a hired man who insists he will take his employer's daughter to Christmas mass.
In an early-eleventh-century poem, an Icelandic traveller describes being turned away from a farmhouse on a journey towards Sweden.
In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Halloween night in 1917 brought snow, disguises and an ultimatum at the front door.