Bysen (original) (raw)
Bysen (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈby̌ːsɛn]) is a legendary gnome-like creature that haunts the woods of the island of Gotland, Sweden. Bysen carries an axe. He is said to have committed a crime, and condemned to walk the Earth forever. He attracts people, making them get lost. Often he meddles with woodsmen, delays their transports, and tips loads of timber over. He often interferes with men in other ways and is accused of all sorts of mischief. Bysen often appears as a stump or an insignificant, little, grey man. Sometimes he wears a red, woven cap and an axe, because one of his tasks is to cut down Gotland's forest. This goes slowly however and sometimes only one tree per century is felled. It's said Bysen is a humanoid who has done some crime within his lifetime, and is therefore sentence
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Bysen (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈby̌ːsɛn]) is a legendary gnome-like creature that haunts the woods of the island of Gotland, Sweden. Bysen carries an axe. He is said to have committed a crime, and condemned to walk the Earth forever. He attracts people, making them get lost. Often he meddles with woodsmen, delays their transports, and tips loads of timber over. He often interferes with men in other ways and is accused of all sorts of mischief. Bysen often appears as a stump or an insignificant, little, grey man. Sometimes he wears a red, woven cap and an axe, because one of his tasks is to cut down Gotland's forest. This goes slowly however and sometimes only one tree per century is felled. It's said Bysen is a humanoid who has done some crime within his lifetime, and is therefore sentenced to wander the earth forever. Bysen is also the ward of the forest and nature. Similar to the Deildegast from Norwegian folklore, some sources say that Bysen are deceased people who have cheated other men out of their land by moving the markers that separated two holdings. As punishment they get no peace in the grave, and are doomed to go along the faulty border, moving the sticks which stand on the wrong land. It's said that as they walk you can hear them mumble, "This is right, this is wrong" while moving the markers. If a human follows Bysen and moves the wrongly placed sticks to the right places then Bysen will gain peace. On the Swedish mainland the counterpart to Bysen is called skälvrängare or osaliga lantmätare (approximately: unholy landsurveyor). If Bysen catches sight of you where you are in the forest he will enchant your vision so that you can not find him again. What returns one's vision to normal is to turn a garment crooked. (en) Bysen är i gotländsk folktro ett litet skogsväsen som lockar människor att gå vilse eller ställer till förtret för skogsarbetarna. Den som Bysen får syn på i skogen, får synen förvrängd, så att denne inte kan hitta hem igen. Den som drabbas kan, genom att vända ett plagg ut och in, återfå normal syn. I detta motsvaras Bysen av lyktgubbar och skogsrået på fastlandet. Bysen försenar också transporter och välter timmerlass. Han uppträder ofta som stubbe eller en liten grå, oansenlig gubbe, och beskylls för allt möjligt ofog. Han är gråklädd med ibland röd stickmössa och bär på en yxa, eftersom han har som uppgift att avverka Gotlands skog. Detta går dock långsamt; ibland ett träd per sekel. Bysen är en mänsklig varelse som begått något brott i sin livstid och är dömd att vandra på jorden i evighet. Bysen är också skogens och naturens bevarare. (sv) |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 4739722 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2840 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1117329945 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Deildegast dbc:Scandinavian_folklore dbr:Gotland dbc:Gotland dbr:Gnome dbr:Sweden dbc:Scandinavian_legendary_creatures dbc:Swedish__folklore |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Europe-myth-stub dbt:Cn dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:IPA-sv dbt:Scandinavian_folklore |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Scandinavian_folklore dbc:Gotland dbc:Scandinavian_legendary_creatures dbc:Swedish__folklore |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Creature |
| rdf:type | yago:WikicatScandinavianLegendaryCreatures yago:Ability105616246 yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Cognition100023271 yago:Creativity105624700 yago:ImaginaryBeing109483738 yago:Imagination105625465 yago:LegendaryCreature109487022 yago:Monster109491966 yago:MythicalBeing109484664 yago:MythicalMonster109492123 yago:PsychologicalFeature100023100 dbo:FictionalCharacter |
| rdfs:comment | Bysen (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈby̌ːsɛn]) is a legendary gnome-like creature that haunts the woods of the island of Gotland, Sweden. Bysen carries an axe. He is said to have committed a crime, and condemned to walk the Earth forever. He attracts people, making them get lost. Often he meddles with woodsmen, delays their transports, and tips loads of timber over. He often interferes with men in other ways and is accused of all sorts of mischief. Bysen often appears as a stump or an insignificant, little, grey man. Sometimes he wears a red, woven cap and an axe, because one of his tasks is to cut down Gotland's forest. This goes slowly however and sometimes only one tree per century is felled. It's said Bysen is a humanoid who has done some crime within his lifetime, and is therefore sentence (en) Bysen är i gotländsk folktro ett litet skogsväsen som lockar människor att gå vilse eller ställer till förtret för skogsarbetarna. Den som Bysen får syn på i skogen, får synen förvrängd, så att denne inte kan hitta hem igen. Den som drabbas kan, genom att vända ett plagg ut och in, återfå normal syn. I detta motsvaras Bysen av lyktgubbar och skogsrået på fastlandet. (sv) |
| rdfs:label | Bysen (en) Bysen (sv) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Bysen yago-res:Bysen wikidata:Bysen dbpedia-sv:Bysen https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4dt7Q |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Bysen?oldid=1117329945&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Bysen |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_legendary_creatures_(B) dbr:Gotland dbr:Gotland_Regiment |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Bysen |