Section from The Dexånglå

The Dexånglå is one of the oldest documents to be discovered in Whitmount. Although only partially complete, it details the various creatures and myths of the island. This version is the 1903 translation by B. Clemente, and is the most complete translation yet. This section is from the Åthå list, detailing the various ways to deter beasts from your homestead.

Sexidisur – a large farmer, who slices children into his compost, with his blunt sickle. Signs of the Sexidisur is large marks at the edge of your fields, in the shape of large footprints with long tracks alongside them. This is due to their pet adders that they keep close at hand, to sense out young blood. To dispose of the Sexidisur, the parents of the children of the farm must go to the edge of their land with a pound of salt and scatter it into the neighbors field. The Sexidisur goes to count every crystal of salt, and by the time it has done that, it has forgotten where his original farm was.

Sáulå – men who live in the bottom of the waters and rock pools surrounding the northern part of the island. They grab unsuspecting girls to use as slaves; as time goes on, the girl’s hair becomes green and their bones become dust, becoming the seaweed and the sand. To stop your girls becoming part of the sea, feed her water from the rivers of the island, which has been boiled with a single peppercorn.

Shurneåyå – a bog dwelling creature that resembles the shape of a dead woman. This lures good hearted people to help them out of the bog, and thus feeds the beast. The way to differentiate between a real dead woman and the Shurneåyå, one must check the ankles of the creature. If they are black in colour, do not help her, for she will be a Shurneåyå.