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If they actually do, then that's retardedly condescending.
>Hey guys, what about these Scandinavian folkloric mythical creatures?
>I dunno, just make them fae or something, so we can continue to masturbate to Anne Rice novels.
Tusser:
> Magical, beautiful goblins with tails.
Hulder:
> Forest spirits. Approves of sustainable logging, because at that point humans will move the heavens and earth to preserve their forest.
> But my God have mercy on your soul if they catch you being an immoral type of hunter. (The type who shoots a deer, but doesn't kill it, and don't bother tracking it for three days to put it out of its misery.)
> Nisser are similar Dwarf/Goblin like creatures that are protective spirits of husbandry, farms and similar.
> You leave them with sacrifices, they bless your animals.
In Norway, Santa Claus is a Nisse. Leaving him milk and cake is your sacrifice. He then leaves you with presents.
>IOW He gets sacrifices from a billion humans every year. He would be a nisse of godlike power.
Skautrolls are the kind of big and mean things that you pretty much have to kill by gatling rocket launchers, by being a werewolf, or just that badass.
Depending on how mean you are, you might just show a huge human with 3 heads, standing seven metres tall, eating a werewolf that was dumb enough to try his luck.
Mountain trolls steal human children to keep them as slaves. They also cuckold the humans by leaving their own children in the place of the human babe.
They all live on this plane of existence, and their magic is of the useful everyday kind, that ranges from "cure a sick cow" to "Magically harvesting entire fields that would take the entire farm weeks to do in a night." (In the last one, they drank all the farm's beer as a payment.)
I just can't see them as fae, sorry.