• A "male hulder" is called a huldrekall, they hella ugly compared to the huldra, they possess grotesquely long noses.
  • Seductive humanoid creatures with a hollow tree like back and animal tail. In Norway, it's a cow's while in Sweden it's a cow or foxtail.
  • Origin: Associated with Christianity, a tale recounts how a woman had washed only half of her children when God came to her cottage; ashamed of the dirty ones, she hid them. God decreed that those she had hidden from him would be hidden from mankind; they became the huldrer
  • Lures men into the woods for her pleasure, if the man does not agree with her advances he gets killed.
  • If she gets married her tail falls off
  • There are tales that display the huldra as kind, and some that show her as bloodthirsty
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