Ummm WTAF ist das und ist der Wald verflucht?

Boy/Girl scouts or similar aged school project, playing around in nature while learning – or summer camp.

What you have seen here a leftovers from a summoning-ritual for Nissebanden. An leftover from ancient religions performed simultaneously in Holme-olstrup, Greenland and Sankt-Croix at half-Christmas (the 24th of June) to ensure a proper arrival of julemanden.

Oh yeah, that’s a pretty common practice to hang effigies like this in Denmark, we do this because of an old ritual called Skovskiderpagten. You actually stumbled into something *very* old. Pre-Christian, proto-Nordic type stuff. The kind of thing local historians won’t talk about unless you catch them drunk at midsummer.

So here’s the short version (and you’re not gonna like it): the effigies are spirit locks. They’re meant to keep malevolent spirits, called *Skovskidere*, trapped in a patch of forest. These spirits aren’t just ghosts, no, they’re the spiritual remains of mostly criminals and murderers and people who died with vengeance in their hearts or broke sacred oaths. Too bad for them, since they won’t get into Hel or Valhalla, so they just sort of… hover. They linger in trees. In bark. In dead wood. And they’re hungry for bodies.

The only way ancient pagan shamans could keep these *skovskidere* contained was by carving these little wooden effigies, defaced as if mocking them and binding them to six different trees, spaced in a ring. The ring traps the spirits inside. The rule is simple: as long as no one looks directly at the effigies, the spirits stay bound.

But, and this is where your situation gets a little spicy, once someone sees the effigies, *really sees them*, the ritual starts to unravel. The spirits become aware of the person who saw them. One effigy? You get followed. Two or more? You’re considered the new container. You are basically predestined to become a *skovskider* yourself.

People used to avoid these areas religiously. There are even old rhymes meant to warn children:

*“Kig bort, kig væk, før skovskideren ser dig,*
*Kig bort, kig væk, før skovskideren bli’r dig“*

So yeah, totally normal thing to find in a forest. We just don’t talk about it much. Because talking about it makes you *think* about it. And thinking leads to curious young minds potentially goign to look for them. And seeing leads to… well, I guess you’ll see.

If you start dreaming of trees growing through your bedroom floor or find little wooden figures in your laundry, maybe post again. That’ll mean *skovskideren* is getting impatient.

Good luck, man. Maybe next time just go to the beach.

It was just midsummer Blót and they sacrificed a pig, obviously.

Its either some kids (maybe a kindergarden or family) who had some fun and made some nature art with clay in nature. Fun and learning, very educational and healthy devolupment.

Or.

Its some satanic ritual, designed to lure in some unsuspected victims before they force a satanic pink ritual on you that makes you gay, speak a different laguage (swedish) and give all you wealth to help fight world hunger. The vikings use a different place in the woods for their rituals and I do belive they use a lot more runes carved into things. Vikings are not a danger unless you look like a english Christian monk dressed in gold, since we dont deal in thralls or danegeld anymore.

Some believe the first is most likely. I find that your world view, religiousness and political orientasion influence if you believe that. But we cannot know for cirtan untill we have all around non stop survailense like China does. But its defenetly not wiches, or you would have added pictures of unlawfully not-up-to-standerd constructed houses made it of sweets. And everyone knows the trolls live under bridges, not near trees… why do you think we build a lot of bridges? Because troll lives matter too 🙃😅😆