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Troll Cat

A troll cat, also known as a milk rabbit or troll ball, is the familiar of a witch in Scandinavian folklore. 

Description

They are created from “human hair, nails, wood shavings, and the like” by witches; and they were said to suck milk from cows and steal cream from households. 

There are said to be different types of troll cats - the trollnøste and trollnøa indicate their shapes: those troll cats looked like balls of yarn. Another type of troll cat had the shape of a regular cat; a difference between the two was that injury done to the cat-shaped troll cat would cause the same injury in the witch, whereas damaging the ball-shaped troll cat had no effect on her.

It was also thought that shooting a troll cat would cause milk to spray from its wound.

A story collected in Norway, 1929, has a witch, named Lispet Snipånn, who had her farmhand collect all the wood shavings; on Thursday night she would roll them into a ball and put three drops of blood (from her finger) on it. The incantation “Now I have given you flesh and blood. May Old Nick give you power and life” turned the ball into a troll cat. Another spell was recorded in Sweden, 1908: I give you blood, Satan gives you power. You shall run for me on earth, I shall burn for you in hell. You shall travel through forests and fields, gathering milk and cream.

It was believed that witches had to sell their souls to the Devil in order to be able to breathe life into the troll cats for them to become beings.  

Droppings from the troll cat (or, the excess milk they had lapped up too greedily and vomited up) could, if they were burned, cause the witch to feel sympathetic pain.

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• Paradise Lost •

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That’s a lot of swords you got there, love. ❤️

(I’m also posting art on Twitter: @mrulrichdraws and Insta @micah_ulrich!)

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Some recommended reading for any self-respecting student of the occult.

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‘Black Tide’ graphite/carbon - 9 x 14″

Sam Wolfe Connelly

My drawing for the second Platinum Blend show at the Modern Eden Gallery opening Jan 9th.

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