Bowl Licker
Bowl Licker comes to town on 17 December. In the past, Icelanders ate from lidded wooden bowls that they sometimes kept under the bed or on the floor. Bowl Licker would hide under the bed, and if someone put their bowl on the floor he grabbed it and licked the inside clean.
Bowl Licker, the sixth one,
was shockingly ill bred.
From underneath the bedsteads
he stuck his ugly head.And when the bowls were left
to be licked by dog or cat,
he snatched them for himself
- he was sure good at that!
So I think this is gross. There is a troll that hides under the bed and licks the bowls you leave lying about.
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First, this gives a whole new set of nightmares to the "there's a monster under my bed" story. Second, if it doesn't scare you, it is just an excuse to not clean up. Can't you here it. "Daniel, take your bowl to the kitchen young man!" "Oh mom. Askasleikir will get it later."
The picture below was take one night in Iceland (it was probably around 9PM - see the long shadows). This was just a pond. But it was this mesmerizing blue and I dug it.
