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A Natural Troll

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Image: Wikimedia Commons

Like mermaids, trolls probably joined the culture when people misperceived perfectly natural phenomena. This one “lives” on the coast of the island of Hamarøy in Norway.

September 3, 2005July 17, 2013 | Oddities

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