Before, it was also common to let the remains of the Christmas meal remain on the table or place it out in the yard on Christmas night in order to appease mythical creatures such as the Trolls or the Nisses which were widely believed to roam the forests.
Children participating in the camps also perform at Høstfest in scheduled events such as the Troll beauty contest, Norwegian Folk dance, Swedish Maypole dancers, and the Troll parade.
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In the Discworld Noir computer game the 'Troll Saphire' performed a parody of "Big Spender", with the opening lyrics as "The minute you walked through the wall, I could tell that you were a troll of destruction"
Later on, she also portrayed two other characters on kid shows; Hedvig in Från A till Ö - En Resa Orden runt (From A to Ö - A Trip Around the Words) from 1974 and the small troll Doris in Trolltider (Trolltimes) from 1979.
In a series of Scot Harvath novels by Brad Thor, a featured character known as "the Troll" has two Caucasian Ovcharkas which serve as his guard dogs.
While Draug escaped to the United Kingdom on 9 April 1940, Garm was sunk by German bombers at the village of Bjordal in the Sognefjord 26 April 1940 and Troll was captured at anchor in Florø by the advancing German forces on 18 May 1940.
Together with her sister, the actress Juni Dahr, she has made two short films, Dolce Vita (1989), where Juni Dahr plays a cobbler, and Troll (1991).
Falcatus was also shown in two Shark Week specials, one also labelled as "Prehistoric Sharks" (where both were shown in restored form by Paleoartist Ray Troll) and the other known as "Jurassic Shark" where it was labelled as a unicorn shark.
During a sea-voyage he is dragged off course by the witchcraft of a troll named Jarnnef (Iron-Nose) and shipwrecked on the shore of Helluland.
# The Moomins and the Great Flood – A young and scared Moomintroll (or The Little Troll as he is first called) and his Moominmamma are traveling through a deep forest and sails the "ocean" in search of his Moominpappa.
When it is on the ground, a nostoc colony is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass, which was once thought to have fallen from the sky; hence the popular names, star jelly, troll’s butter, witch's butter (not to be confused with the fungus Tremella mesenterica), and witch’s jelly.
The name of the book as well as the names of it chapters are taken from a Finnish song Päivänsäde ja Menninkäinen by Tapio Rautavaara and Reino Helismaa, which says "Kas, menninkäinen ennen päivänlaskua ei voi milloinkaan olla päällä maan" (translated "A troll cannot ever stay above the ground before sundown").
The term "patent troll" was coined in the 1990s by the employees of Intel and popularized by Intel's Peter Detkin.
Pip the Troll was introduced by Jim Starlin in Strange Tales vol 2 #179 (Feb 1975) to be a comic foil to the story's main protagonist, Adam Warlock.
His film credits include Marco Ferreri's La Dernière femme (U.S. title: The Last Woman) (1976), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980) and Phenomena (1985), Troll (1986), a remake of Roman Holiday (1987) (produced for American television) and four of the movies in the Fantaghirò series.
Tanith Low is a master swords-woman who is first introduced while battling a troll on London Bridge in the first book.
The most notable reference to the story is the Norwegian stage play Peer Gynt in which the Mountain King (Dovregubben), is clearly modeled on the Norwegian troll king in Andersen's tale.
They used fairy names such as Gnome Tarn, Troll Sink, Naiad Lake (officially Temple Lake), Sprite and King Arthur legends in the Lower Enchantment Basin because "the lower basin was not as austere as the upper basin," according to Peg.
Franken Troll - Horrible handiwork of a troll scientist - a gruesome assortment of spare body parts assembled in an ill-fated attempt to create the ultimate troll!
Comedian Bill Bailey performed a German translation of the song in his Part Troll set.
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007) - producer, writer, Jack Brooks, Forest Troll
Troll Country is the name of a region in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe.
The story is influenced by legends and folktales about trolls and nisses collected in Thomas Keightley’s ‘Fairy Mythology’, 1850, and William Craigie’s ‘Scandinavian Folklore’, 1896, as well as by Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Elf Hill’, a satirical description of a troll wedding.