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It was a really beautiful morning today, with lots of fog and sunshine, and it made me want to draw the bog woman and her family.

In Nordic mythology the bog woman is responsible for fog when she brews something in her big black pot. She looks like a troll, but belongs to the elf family.

Elves are the children of the a bog woman. The girls look like beautiful ghosts made of mist, and the boys like dirty children. As the girls grow up they become more and more solid, first turning into the hollow-backed women, and finally bog women. The boys grow all their lives, and the oldest of them all, the elf king, is huge.

The young misty elf girls are the most dangerous. They take great joy in luring men to dance with them, and then either take him to their parents (what they do with him is never mentioned, but it is possible to escape months later) or dance him to death.
Their older hollow-backed sisters can also lure men, but not as often and they tend to kill the men on the spot.

Song about a man getting tempted to dance with an elf [link]
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Mood: Love ~Blue-moon-skydiver75 Apr 6, 2013
Very sweet and warm ^^. I love it!
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~sesshomaru68 Jan 23, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
fascinating mythology and lovely picture!
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~StevenGordonArt Aug 27, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
And these mythical creatures wonder why we humans dislike them...they always want to kill us first!

Their ways are so alien.
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~Ninarry Nov 15, 2011
This made me think of Pyrus, where he dances with the elfs :3
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Mood: Crazy ~JonnaJacobsen Sep 4, 2011
Holy shit... You made something that has Faroese songs in it..?!
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~Casandraelf Aug 7, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
for some bizarre reason the elf guy reminds me of orlando bloom as legolas
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~notanerd101 Aug 26, 2011  Student General Artist
Ditto.
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~Everron Jul 24, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'm happy to see all this element of elven family, because we don't know a lot about them in Franceand europe, it's a chance to be scandinave because I thing that this know is learn by your parents and speak story...Your article on troll and legend of scandinavia is incredible...
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~Liswyn Feb 7, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
This is the origin of the elf stories??
That's amazing!! *-*
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~SwampFoxTheThird Jan 15, 2011
Weird......
You know, I've learned more about Europe (mostly Scandinavia) from this stuff than anything else. :XD:
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