Many refinement have their own singular superstitions , passed down through the generations . In Iceland , for instance , some people believe in invisible gremlin , calledhuldufolk(or " hidden people " ) . It ’s said that their freakish whims can make misfortune to mankind , so it ’s best not to anger them . Butaccording to AFP , that ’s precisely what one team of highway workers circumstantially did in Siglufjörður , Iceland last August , when they buried a supposedly sacred elfin rock while cleaning road junk from a landslip .
prole cleared the route of mud and land , and pile it on top of the “ enchanted ” rock music . Afterwards , theIceland Monitorreports , calamity ensued during subsequent cleanup spot efforts : The road flood , a construction worker was injured , equipment stopped work , and a diary keeper treat the black serial of events fell into a clay pool .
topical anesthetic blamed the ill luck on the pixy — but the saga end only lately , when a missive drafted by Siglufjörður ’s township council ( along with conservation laws protect supernaturally substantial sites as home artefact ) convinced the Iceland Road Administration to dig up the wizardly rock and cleanse it with a pressure washing machine .
As AFP points out , this is n’t the first sentence that officials have altered structure architectural plan due to imp . In the 1970s , for illustration , Icelandic workersexperienced a series of freak accidentswhile building a national main road get in touch the country ’s northeasterly with the capital metropolis of Reykjavik . These snafus were charge on the vengeful mythic creatures , who reportedly did n’t require their abode — a large boulder — move out from the itinerary .
And in 2015,The Guardianreports , a group of “ elf conservationists ” and road constructor finally settled an eight - yr contravention over a reportedly enchanted boulder , have sex as Ófeigskirkja , that sat in the Gálgahraun lava field north of Reykjavik . The rock was eventually relocated — but by then , one elf worshiper toldThe Guardian , its invisible indweller had made peace with the change .
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