CURSES: The Wooden Man

The Egeskov Castle in Kværndrup, Denmark is home to the Wooden Man. He sleeps peacefully under the tower spire upon his pillow. Legend says the Wooden Man must stay or the house itself will suffer. It says that if he moves from his place the castle will sink into its moat on Christmas Night. Several owners believed the legend. They would spend Christmas away, but the current owners celebrate it and even leave a bowl of rice pudding for the Wooden Man. The Wooden Man is a doll the size of a child. 

Countess Nonni loaned the Wooden Man out to the National Museum of Demark. He was weighed, measured, and photographed. The loan agreement was only for 6 months but after 14 days Countess Nani asked for it back.  The castle creaked and groaned and the walls began to shake and once he restored to his pillow the castle became peaceful.

SOURCES:

Egeskov 

Obscura Atlas 

Bog Bodies: The Frær Mose Woman

 The Frær Mose Woman was found four feet beneath a Denmark bog in 1842. Only her foot, a well-preserved wool garment, and a shoe were found. It's not stated whether or not this was a recent death or historical at the time of discovery. There is no time window stated for when she lived and died. 

SOURCES: 

Mummipedia 

Wikipedia

Academic

Liqui Search

The Elling Woman

  

In 1938 a bog body of a woman was found in Silkeborg, Denmark. The bog helped somewhat preserve the body and some clothing by the bog. The woman would be termed the Elling Woman. She was around 25-years-old and her sex was hard to identify at first because the front of the body didn't mummify as well as the back. She had died around 350–150 BCE.

Her death was believed to have been unnatural. She was either, executed, sacrificed, or murdered. She was hanged with a leather thong. The thong left a V-shaped ligature in her neck. No other injuries or such were linked to her death. After this, she was placed into the peat bog. 

The woman had an elaborate braid. A sheepskin cape was wrapped over her upper legs, and her legs and feet covered by a different sheepskin cape. She was also wearing a woven belt around her waist that had a sliding knot. 

Her identity and the reason for her death are now lost to history.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Mummipedia

Archeology Magazine

The Porsmose Man

In 1946 the body of Porsmose Man was discovered near Næstved, Denmark in a bog. Unlike other bog bodies, he was not mummified and was a skeleton. The man was 35-40-years-old and had died around 2600 BCE. It was obvious he had a brutal end.

He had been murdered as an arrow had entered through his nose. This was not likely the arrow that killed him as another arrow was found in his chest. The killer was up at an angle above the man at close range. It could be possible that it was execution or ambush to kill the man.

It's unknown who the Porsmose Man is or why he was killed. This will remain a mystery lost to time.


SOURCES:
Mummipeida
The Danish National Museum

The Borremose Man

In 1946 peat diggers in the southern Borremose, Himmerland, Denmark found a body in the peat bog.  His body was found a half a meter below a layer of birch sticks. The body was well preserved and mummified due to the peat bog.

He was 1.55 m (5'1") and carbon dating done on the body showed he had lived during the Nordic Bronze Age around 700 BCE. He had two sheepskin coats and a woven cap beside him. His stomach contents had various seeds of different kinds knotweed, common spurrey, sheep's sorrel, lambsquarters and animal hair and peat moss leaves (these two likely being containments). It's likely he had been murdered. He had a 36 cm (14") rope with a slipknot around his throat. It was revealed with further examination of the body that he had a crushing blow to the back of his skull and his right femur had been broken.

SOURCES:
Mummipedia Wiki
Wikipedia
Tollund Man Den