Arnäs · Stranne · 1917
Old Woman's Hill
"Käringbacken"
- Parish
- Arnäs
- Village
- Stranne
- Year
- 1917
- Collector
- Levi Johansson
- Informant
- Änka Sara Persson
- Record no.
- LMV-M541
English translation
We had a district constable here in the parish named Huss. I served him when I was 22 years old. The constable had a great dread of "Old Woman's Hill." The hill had gotten its name because a woman with a nervous illness, named Karin, had died there, just after the road was newly built there. The constable himself had seen many strange things on that hill, and he most emphatically forbade me from taking that road in the dark.
Original transcription (Swedish)
Vi hade en länsman här i socknen som hette Huss. Hos honom tjänade jag, då jag var 22 år. Länsmannen hade stor fasa för "Käringbacken". Backen hade fått namnet därav att en nervsjuk kvinna, som hette Karin, hade dött där, strax vägen var nybruten där. Länsmannen hade själv sett många underliga ting i den där backen, och han förbjöd mig på det bestämdaste att gå den vägen fram i mörkret.
Included courtesy of © 2016 Länsmuseet Västernorrland.
Source: Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland, folk memory collection. These records were written down in the first half of the 1900s; the collectors' language and values are of their own time.