Mylingar

‘Mylingar’ is a Swedish word that is the plural of ‘myling’. It’s a Scandinavian legend that speaks about ghosts/spirits of unbaptized and/or unnamed children that have been forced to roam the earth until they could force someone to name and/or bury them, in fact ‘killing’ them for real so they can finally rest. In a way, they haunt people in order to get killed/buried. They haunt lone wanderers in the woods, jump on people’s backs and demand to be carried to a graveyard.