a Swedish scholar offered cash for a dead lindorm in 1884 and got laughed into the ground

Småland, mid-1800s. Folklorist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius is out collecting and keeps running into ordinary people — not drunks, farmers — describing giant limbless serpents in the forest, some with a long mane down the neck. He ends up with around fifty firsthand reports. So the man does the rati……