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> Bishop King once who decreed "strygas and the kind are not real" and with that told the church to stop investigating
We had the opposite. The church would love to hold exorcisms against different folklore beings.

>pic related because it's a modern telling of the most common of them, and told by a foreigner

There were also trolls who looked human but lived inside mountains and were afraid of iron. You could expose them by their fear of naming objects made from iron, and they wouldn't walk over your doorstep if it had an iron inlay. My old farmhouse has iron in all doorsteps. Doesn't wear down, but the real reason is double, you could blame wear, but still following folklore precautions like this.

Quite recently there was a tv show where an old retired miner was interviewed. He claimed to have met the "mine wife" in the 1950s one day when he went alone down into the mine early morning. He was in the dark and it was perfectly silent when a female voice said "today you will have to work alone, the other one died last night".

He went back up and found out his partner for the shift hadn't showed up because he was indeed dead.

I've tried reaching out to find these entities and they are still there, but people aren't receptive to them much anymore. The small ones, vättar, are very present though. There are precautions about them too, if you are to pour out boiling water you have to say out loud "watch out down there!" It you were to burn one of them they would retaliate and maybe cause illness or accidents.