By and large, child spirits are among the baddest of the bad, maybe because there's so much potential in their souls that when it curdles, it really curdles. Here's another kind of child spirit that we ran across in Dad's journal while figuring this one out.
MYLING. Scandinavian child spirit, also called UTBURD. Typically the souls of murdered children, or children who died unbaptized. They will ride with travelers at night and demand to be taken to a graveyard so they can rest, but they get heavier and heavier as the graveyard gets closer, until the person carrying them is driven under the earth by their weight. This belief is derived from the practice of leaving unwanted or deformed infants out to die of exposure. Generally they haunt the location where they were abandoned, but folklore also notes their presence in the dwellings of those who killed them-usually a family member. If their remains can be located and buried in hallowed ground, they will disappear.
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