Draugarétt (Ghost Fold) in Húsafell, Iceland

Just off the road that passes the Hraunfossar and Barnafoss waterfalls lies a small circle enclosing more than a dozen rocks. But look closer and you may see the faces of 18 spirits on their way back to the underworld. Snorri Björnsson was the pastor of Húsafell from 1756 to 1803, but prior to that he served as a priest at Hornstrandir. He seems to have left on less-than-friendly terms, since a local legend tells of how other sorcerers, who were enemies of Snorri, raised the dead and sent their…

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