Tommy Kuusela, PhD
Tommy Kuusela is a PhD in History of Religions and works as a researcher and archivist at the Department of Dialectology and Folklore Research in Uppsala (The Institute for Language and Folklore). The archives of the Institute for Language and Folklore houses one of Sweden’s largest folklore collections. Kuusela has written more than 25 articles on different topics: Scandinavian folklore, Old Norse religion, animal studies and Tolkien studies. Read more of his work here and here.
Skogsrå and Huldra: The femme fatale of the Scandinavian forests
Tolkien describes the Old Forest, a space filled with deep-rooted mysteries and danger in Middle-earth. Although, this takes place in
The Werewolf Panic of the 1970s
In the autumn of 1972, numerous Swedish newspapers described how werewolves were causing people to panic in a town in
Gloson: The Swedish Ghost Pig That Will Cleave You in Half
You turn around, and all of a sudden, you see that something is approaching, moving towards you. You notice a