>>4338
>There was a also a male spirit called Näcken, singular, indicating a single being
Made me realize witcher had that too. The series called them Nekkers. When I wrote it in Twitch and I was unable to post it I lost my sides. Fucking Nekkers. Despite being only 13% of the population...lol

Our folklore didn't have things like this. We had a Bishop King once who decreed "strygas and the kind are not real" and with that told the church to stop investigating them or use witchhunt as an excuse for political purge. So these monsters had to be forgotten or by acknowledging them you went against the authority of the king. Not to mention the usual "Don't be a pussy" mentality. We had our own kind of shamans and witches because of that and I am pretty sure they dealt with these kind of problems while the officials just brushed it away as the usual stupid superstitions. Folklore had a weird way evolving and devolving and collecting them is hard because well... the only thing that scorns these superstitions harder than the church are commies. Commies put up with the church if they are willing to acknowledge they count as second class citizens and will work as snitches but heretics that believe in silly superstitions are even below. I know these traditions and tales survived in some places but they are not mainstream and considered weird. It's on my bucket list to get to know them sometimes but there is a difference between intellectual curiosity and going there and mindlessly summoning an entity and learning about centuries of lore out of nowhere because he starts talking and gets interested in you. Too many beings around when you bother to see them.