ode-on-a-grecian-butt:The tilberi is a creature of Icelandic folklore, created by witches to steal m
ode-on-a-grecian-butt:The tilberi is a creature of Icelandic folklore, created by witches to steal milk. Only women can create and own them.To create a tilberi, the woman steals a rib from a recently buried body early on Whitsunday, twists around it grey wool which she must steal for the purpose (it is sometimes specified that the wool must be plucked from between the shoulders of a widow’s sheep soon after its wool has been plucked) and keeps it between her breasts. The next three Sundays at communion she spits the sanctified wine on the bundle, which will come more alive each time. She then lets it suckle on the inside of her thigh, which creates a tell-tale wartlike growth. The woman can now send the tilberi to suck milk from others’ cows and ewes. It will return to the window of her dairy and call out “Full belly, Mummy!“ and vomit the stolen milk into her butter churn. -- source link