Tibetan monks chant over troll bridge

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Trolls and a princess (John Bauer)

A bridge troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as "trolls" dwell in isolated areas of mountains, rocks, and caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized and brought to heel (like Zionist Hillary Clinton might like), and are considered dangerous to human beings.

• TROLLS IN BUDDHISM: A kumbhāṇḍa (Sanskrit) or kumbhaṇḍa (Pāli) is one of a group of dwarfish, trollish, misshapen spirits among the lesser unseen being in Buddhist cosmology and mythology [1, 2]. Kumbhāṇḍa was a dialectal form for "gourd," and due to their large scrotums or stomachs, they got their name from the resemblance. But kumbhāṇḍa may also be interpreted as "pot-egg" since "pot" (kumbha like the world's largest festival, the Kumbha Mela, that pot or jar having spilled the the nectar of the gods, the amrita or ambrosia of immortality, on a few spots in India) and "egg" (aṇḍa). This was a common euphemism for "testicle," the kumbhāṇḍas were imagined as having testicles "as large as pots" [1]. The terms kumbhāṇḍa (dwarf or troll) and yakṣa (Sasquatch, female yakshi or Yeti, ogre) are sometimes used for the same creature. Yakṣa (Pali yakkha) in this case is the more general term, including a variety of lower woodland of for the most part unseen being. More

Male and female kumbhandas (trolls)

Depending on the source, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them.

In Scandinavian folklore, trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks like bridges (sometimes said to have been formed by a troll having been exposed to sunlight).

Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.

Etymology (word origin)

The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll are variously defined as "fiend, demon, werewolf, jötunn," like the Middle High German troll, trolle, "fiend."

According to philologist Vladimir Orel, the word is likely borrowed from Old Norse, possibly developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun *trullan, meaning "to tread, step on" [tromp, stomp, stamp]. The origin of the Proto-Germanic word is unknown [1]. Additionally, the Old Norse verb trylla means "to enchant..." More