From Ullånger

In olden times, there were certainly those who were far-sighted in Ullånger, in Invik, the farmers learned by heart, or rather, held the belief, that he who was first home at the farmyard when they drove home from Christmas matins on Christmas Day, he would have luck and thrive in everything that was to be done and accomplished before the other neighbors in the coming year. At that time, the vehicles or church sleds, as they were called, were long, narrow, single-seater sleds. It is said that the church sleds at that time were painted green. However, the sled was so long that three and four could ride between the front and back, and a fifth on the very back. At that time, they had the road over the last 'inge' (a type of field/pasture). However, there was one of the farmers who drove very fast, he kept to his side and drove home everything that was ahead and was first home at the farmyard. But when he looked behind him, he saw that the single one, those who rode and drove the sled, had ended up in a ditch out on the last 'inge'. However, there were probably more of the farmers who would have liked to be first, but since it didn't go so, they got angry with the farmer who came first home with luck and prosperity, for he had driven his church sled into a ditch out on the last 'inge'. But he consoled himself with the fact that it was the old year. I just remembered, since it's about superstitions, there was a man named Magnus Näsholm who bought a farm on Ullånger mountain in Noralmsjön. Meanwhile, he had a farmhand, and when he was to tend to the horses in the evening, he saw a creature come into the stables and walk up to the barn. However, there were probably more than the farmhand who had seen that creature. But it happened one time when the farmhand was going to stable the horses, that creature came into the stable door and the farmhand ran after it, but before that creature reached the barn, it had a water head loose and then it disappeared. Meanwhile, there was a big man from the village who was a timber boss and he was named Jon Walllin. He had a 'wätte' saw at Sikfäss. He went up to Sikfäss a few times now and then. Meanwhile, it turned out that he was to stay one night at Näsholm's, and he slept in the chamber. He went to bed very properly and slept, but woke up to someone pulling the bedclothes off him. He pulled them back on, but just as it was, someone was pulling the covers off again, but no one was seen doing it. Meanwhile, he got such a fright that he got out of the chamber and into the kitchen where the household people lay. Meanwhile, the people around there had the notion that it was the farmer before Näsholm who walked there and haunted, and his name was Lars Nilsen. I just remembered another superstition up on Ullånger mountain in a village called Walle. There was only one farmer in Walle. Meanwhile, the old man died and the farm became for sale. Meanwhile, farmers from two villages in Nordingrå bought the farm and were to use it as a summer pasture for their dairy cows. Very properly, they went up to Walle with their dairy cows, daughters, and the maid who was to look after the cows. They were to stay in the shepherd's hut. It was a six-cornered hut with two floors. Meanwhile, the girls lived on the lower floor, but it wasn't pleasant to be there. When they had gone to bed in the evening and lain for a while, they heard walking on the upper floor and creaking doors, and it wasn't long before they lay and heard creaking doors and doors opening on the lower floor too, but they never saw anything. Meanwhile, when those farmers had had the farm for a year or two, they sold it to someone named Olle Westin in Mäja, but they kept the right to graze the pasture land for their dairy cows. And then those farmers built a cookhouse and moved it about one hundred fifty or two hundred meters from Walle farm. Meanwhile, the people had the belief that it was another Anders Andersson, the farmer who had owned the farm, who walked there and creaked and opened doors.