Iceland Still Believes in Elves and Ghosts

[Erik T. Burns]

According to Michael Lewis' article on the Icelandic financial crisis
(offline now at Vanity Fair as it will be published in a book coming
soon) there is mention made of the need to verify the nonexistence of
Elves before building new aluminium smelters.

referred to in this bit:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/03/michael_lewis_o.html

pdf possibly available here:
http://depts.washington.edu/teclass/articles472/Wall%20Street%20on%20the%20Tundra%20_%20vanityfair.pdf




On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=290137
>
> According to a recent study on superstition in Iceland supervised by
> Terry Gunnell, associate folklore professor at the University of
> Iceland, a significant portion of participants would not rule out the
> existence of elves and ghosts.
>
> The results of the study were similar to those of a study conducted in
> 1974 by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports.
>
> “Icelanders seem much more open to phenomena like dreaming the future,
> forebodings, ghosts and elves than other nations,” Gunnell said.
>