Skogsrå
Skogsrå or Skogsfrun is the "Mistress of the Forest" in Swedish folklore. She is a beautiful woman usually hiding legs and tail of an animal like a fox or a goat beneath clothing or long hair. She is related to the Norse folklore of "hidden-folk", Old Norse: hulder or huldra, across Scandinavia — along with the Faeroe Isles and Icelandic: Huldufólk.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 2023 CE
- Attested period
- 2023 – 2023
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Vespald, Lylok, skeppsrået, haltija, Naiads, Sjálf, näcken, Glaistig, Kami, Landvættir, Hiisi, Mare, Revenant, Nixie, succubus, nymphs, Radande
- manifests as
- Huldra
- aspect of
- Ra
- sibling of
- sjörå
- child of
- rår
- syncretized with
- metsänpeitto
- manifested by
- Ra, metsänneitsyt, haapaneitsyt, metsänemäntä
- has aspect
- Skogs-raa
Mentioned by
- Glaistig
- Kami
- Landvættir
- Hiisi
- Mare
- Revenant
- Nixie
- succubus
- nymphs
- Radande
- Vættir
- rår
- metsänpeitto
- Ra
- metsänneitsyt
- haapaneitsyt
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“with her named Skogsrå or Skogsfrun, the "Mistress of the Forest" in Swedish folklore.”
#6448 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In the video game "Bramble: The Mountain King," developed by Dimfrost Studios in 2023, the boss Skogsrå is a Huldra.”
#6627 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Though specific individual rår depicted in folklore, such as the skogsrå and the bergsrå, were typically described as female, in general the rår could be both masculine and feminine.”
#7341 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Skogsrå”
#8508 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Swedish folklore, a rå is a spirit connected to a place, object or animal; examples are the skogsrå (a forest being) and sjörå (a water being).”
#8651 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5