Much like bat and owl species, animals who are active at night are often feared. Also, Wild Boars are primarily nocturnal animals, snuffling about under cover of darkness. While large in size and generally rather docile, pigs have the ability to be incredibly vicious and territorial, especially if the sow had piglets nearby. Pigs were a familiar sight in the day to day life of peasants for centuries and pigs would often roam freely around the countryside. Image: Johan Egerkransīut why a boar? Are pigs so terrifying? Pigs have a long history and are a familiar presence in European folklore. Otherwise the Gloson’s touch would have been fatal. As the boar did not touch her person and just her clothing, she survived. In one tale, the glancing blow of the boar against a woman’s dress caused a sudden and severe illness. In a delightful combination of the two, some stories state that the unfortunate person carried away by the Gloson will be gradually sawn in half from the razor-sharp back of the pig itself.Ī touch from the Gloson can be just as bad as a journey on its back.
This journey could take weeks, months or years, resulting in the unwilling rider becoming insane or simply dying from exhaustion. The boar may carry an unfortunate person on her back for a prolonged journey. In less bloody tales, the Gloson is more of a Forrest Gump character, running endlessly. While there are folk tales of spectral animals across the world, including some rather underwhelming British ghost pigs, the Gloson feeds into a brutal and visceral fear of violence that so many folk tales leave behind. It was one of many supernatural interferences that was to be expected before the year walker could prove his or her worth and become sensitive to the supernatural and be able to get a glimpse of the coming year.’ ‘The purpose of Gloson was to hinder the year walker from accomplishing his or her goal. The ‘Year Walker’ appears to be a Swedish equivalent (of sorts) of the Australian ‘walkabout’, where knowledge or enlightenment is obtained after a long solo journey.
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A common motif in the legends is that Gloson runs at the year walker at full speed, and seeks to come between the year walker’s legs and cleave the walker in two with her razor sharp back.’ Image: Torbjörn Källström Sometimes she appears accompanied by several piglets. In Kuusela’s work, he recounts that the Gloson ‘is said to be a pig in the form of a horrible sow with a back in the shape of a razor-sharp saw. The Gloson is a weaponised pig that will only bring misery and misfortune. The Gloson is generally cited as being a large white wild boar with glowing red eyes and a jagged spine, shaped like the teeth of a saw blade.
It had one hundred eyes over its body, shining like vile fire.” Image: Robin Kuusela Kuusela cites a particularly vivid account of a Gloson encounter, Throughout Swedish folklore, it has gone by many names, such as as Gloson, Gluffsoen, Glosoen, Glopsugganand Luffesoen, to name but a few.īut why does the Gloson strike horror into the hearts of those who fear it? While there are tales of the demon pig’s exploits found throughout the years, it is from the 19 th century that we find the most detailed depictions of Gloson. The Gloson is special creature, known through many different stories, primarily from southern Sweden.
The Gloson is not just any normal common or garden ghost pig. In amongst articles on Tolkein and Norse religions, I happened upon an article about ‘The Gloson’ a ghost pig. Mysteries and clues await everywhere in Year Walk, but to fully understand the events that took place on that cold New Year's Eve, you will have to delve deeper than the adventure and lose yourself between fact and fiction.In my unending hunt for archaic and obscure spectral animals, I happened across the work of Dr Tommy Kuusela, a prolific and diverse Swedish folklorist and archivist. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future and find out if your loved one will ever love you back. Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Sobre este jogo In the old days man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways.Įxperience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the line between two and three dimensions, as well as reality and the supernatural.
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