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Kimmo Huosionmaa
When we are thinking about this old Viking-era tale, where some man or Viking -soldier were trapped to the mountain by the witch, we can ask: how this could happen? In the original song, the woman used witchcraft to make this thing happen. Of course, somebody can claim, that this witch was some kind of alien, what closed this poor Viking-soldier inside the fourth dimension because she wanted to marry this Viking.
But then we can think some more natural reasons for that trapping, and this time we can forget those aliens. First thing, what we can think, is that this woman used some narcotic mushrooms or vegetables to make this Viking-soldier an addict to the drugs, what this witch used for controlling that man. Maybe this witch used also some psychological methods to make sure, that "Herr Mannelig" stayed in this mountain. Maybe this witch gave some mushrooms to "Herr Mannelig" and then claimed, that she could keep the "devil" out of the body of that Viking.
And if this man made something, what didn't please that witch, would she give some narcotics mushrooms. And what would that mushroom be, what didn't make that Viking suspicious about the treatment? This time I think that the question was about the mushroom, what lives in the corn. This mushroom is called as Ergot, and it causes hallucinations. The poison of that mushroom is actually same, what is known as LSD. This poison causes the hallucinations, what are known as "Holy Fire", and those hallucinations are caused by making people unsure about their mental health.
So if that Viking-soldier didn't do, what the witch told to do, would he get those corns. There would be some more explanations of that mysterious trapping, and one of them would be, that this witch removed some important bacteria from this victims stomach. And when this soldier was used the mission, would the witch give the bacteria back to this man. And probably she didn't want to force this victim to marry her, because the marriage would not be happy. This is one way to think about this song, what is one of the eldest on the Earth. But if that magician wanted to play with bacteria, must she know about them. But this is very interesting parts of history, and there are many speculations, what happened before that Viking seemed, that he is trapped with some witch.
Those men were very tough, and they didn't scare for small reasons. The threat must be very realistic, that this soldier believed, that some woman was controlling him. So this has been made people think, that maybe there were some antibiotics, what terminated part of the bacteria from this soldiers stomach, and that made him the slave. Witches or poison makers didn't have official training for their job, and that's why they have kept their secrets in centuries. But the genomes, what are isolated from the property of known poison makers have been told, what kind of chemicals they used to confess their victims, that they had no other choice than believe that witch.
Witches were quite feared, because they used poisons to make the purpose, and that made them invincible in the eyes of normal people, but swords were visible. And this was the reason, why people liked more about those soldiers than poison cookers, who sold their services for royal families for reason, that they must kill somebody, who must go to the grave without visible violence. And those poison makers were very careful, that they would not catch about their job, because that would cause burning in the pyre.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy44ocuoWhE
Picture I
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https://pimeakronikka.blogspot.fi/p/how-could-some-woman-trap-viking.html
