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Ritual Well Trolls can be driven off by draining the well or leave it unused for six months. If the troll can be lured CHARACTERISTICS out of the well, it can be attacked and killed in the same • Might 5 (troll 7) Body Control 6 manner as humans. It is said that soap also works • Magic 6 Manipulation 4 (hag 8) Fear 1 against the Troll in the Well. The man in the well can be banished by having the children of the area to cronfront their fear of the well, COMBAT or by having a person defeat their reflection in the ATTACK DAMAGE RANGE water. The troll’s long 2 0-1 The Hag in the Well can be banished by wagering arms The Well Man’s one’s life and then solve her riddle for three nights in a Hook 2 0-1 row. Alternatively blessing the water in the well by lowering the priest down to the water scares her away. Claws of the Hag 1 0 Examples of Conflicts

• Near dalarne, Sweden, is an abandoned village. The neighbors believe all the residents have MAGICAL POWERS emigrated to America, but the truth is that a very • Enchant hungry Troll in the Well has eaten them all – and • Curse now it waits for travelers to stay the night. The • Trollcraft troll has connected all the wells in the village, and • The Man in the Well’s strength grwos as the fear of it begins by eating the horses of the travelers. him grows. Anyone failing a fear test he will gain +2 • Skånevik, Norway, is being plagued by a hook man, bonus against. who has created so much fear among the The Hag in the Well can lure people to her with her townspeople, that it has been able to move into the whispers, and with her incantations she can wither away her victim’s resistance, until they throw town’s reservoir and from here he can drag entire themselves into the well. wagons into the water with his hooks. If the fear of him keeps growing, he will become powerful enough to drag an entire building into the CONDITIONS reservoir. • In Helsingør, Denmark, is a doctor who has □ Angry trapped a Hag in her well. She has mounted an □ Aggressive +1 iron grid with silver crosses over the opening to □ Furious +2 keep the hag trapped. Every night the doctor goes □ Stunned -1 to the well and demands that the hag delivers □ Frightened -2 cures to her patients. □ Troll: Broken – dies if the damage is physical □ Man: Broken – He becomes less frightening; He Secret reshapes his form the next night The troll in the well sometimes hide in ponds and □ Hag: Broken – she flees from the well, and a black creaks near well-traveled roads, often near bridges, rider arrives in the area. If she survives the night, she appears in a new well. where they can pull people down. They are enemies of

the Brook Horse and the Neck, who does not tolerate their presence. Sometimes the mere threat of the Neck can scare off a troll. The Hook Man lives in the shadow of people’s reflection on the water. If the water can kept lit with a lantern or the like for long enough then the man in the well will disappear, The Hag in the Well is being chased by a mysterious hunter and his two black dogs. If one can point the hunter in the direction of the hag, it is one way to get Samplerid of her. However, the hunter’s reward for the help file can be perilous to receive.

Historical Notes This vaesen is based on mostly on Danish folk customs and some Swedish traditions. Brøndmanden (Man in the Well), Brøndkællingen (Hag in the Well), Brøndtrolden (The Troll in the Well) or Krogmanden (The Hook Man) as are some of the Danish names or Brunngubbe as is one of the Swedish is as such not known from 19th or 20th century Scandinavian folklore as trolls, mare, elves, nisser and the other vaesen from the Vaesen rulebook are. Instead, the brøndtrold is a boogieman invoked to scare children away from wells, as these were and are dangerous, and there is hardly any mythology to them beyond the fact, that they live in wells and ponds and comes with many different names. The vaesen presented here is a melange of the scarce information with some details added from related beings from Scandinavian folklore. An older tradition about a being in the well, whom clever people might gain insight against diseases from has been added, though it is doubtful that it is as such a part of the Brøndmand tradition. Wells in themselves were dangerous. Falling into one would lead to drowning. There are stories being told of people committing suicide by jumping into a well and afterwards they haunted the well. Likewise, are there stories of infants appearing as ghosts after being drowned in ponds and wells by desperate mothers. Often the priest would be summoned to deal with the apparitions.

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