The fairytale path and the border stone ghost

The fairytale bridge you are standing next to, is the beginning of the fairytale path which will take you further up the hill. There are many nice surprises along the path, if you try to observe the surroundings. The bridge crosses a small stream, and many people claim to have heard the border-stone ghost on this spot. In Norwegian, this character has many names, and in Åseral it is mainly called “bytegasten”. The border between properties were generally marked with border stones. They were flat stones placed edgewise between two smaller stones, thereby also indicating the direction of the borderline. Stealing land by moving border stones has always been considered a very serious crime. Whoever does such a thing becomes a border stone ghost, an afterlife punishment. You may hear the border stone ghost at night when he is trying to move the border stone back to its original and correct place.