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When they came to the churchyard, the Strandvarsel said, 'Let me go, or the Kirkegrim will seize you. This she did; but as soon as the Strandvarsel was in the churchyard, the Kirkegrim rushed at the Bondekone, and seized her by her skirt; as this was old, it gave way, and she escaped. But she had a good time of it after, with the money she had taken from the corpse by the sea-shore."
When he came close to the churchyard wall, the Strandvarsel jumped over it; but the Kirkegrim, of whom I will speak directly, seized the Strandvarsel, and immediately a combat took place between them. When they had fought a while, they both rested to take breath. The Strandvarsel asked the Bonde, 'Did I hit him? 'No, said the Bonde.
"I have already told you that these superstitions yet live in the hearts of the people; they do not confess them openly, but they do exist here and there." "What is the superstition about the Kirkegrim?" asked Hardy. "The Kirkegrim," replied the Pastor, "is a spirit or gnome that inhabits the church, and revenges any injury to it or the churchyard.
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