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Updated: May 17, 2025
They are of the same race as the Good People, who haunt farm houses, and do the maids' work for a pot of cream. They are the size of a year-old child, but their faces are the faces of aged men. Their common dress is of gray home-spun, with red peaked caps; but on Michaelmas Day they wear round hats. The Church Niss is called Kyrkegrim.
Without, the sunshine dried the dew from paths on which the hermit's feet had left no prints, and cherished the spring flowers bursting into bloom. But within, the hermit's dead body lay stretched upon his pallet, and the Trinity Flower was in his hand. It is said that in Norway every church has its own Niss, or Brownie.
"Let us seek examples in Scripture. We will speak of Pharaoh." But when the Kyrkegrim spoke of Pharaoh the farmer was at ease again. And by-and-bye a film stole gently before his eyes, and he nodded in his seat. This made the Kyrkegrim very angry, for he did not wish to give up his place, and yet a Niss may not break his word. "Let us look at the punishment of Pharaoh," he cried.
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