The Skin Satchel
A satchel made of animal skin that carries magic in a Swedish folk tale. In the tale 'The Skin Satchel', the humble leather bag turns out to hold an impossible store, or to have been sewn for a magical purpose, and its opening releases the story's marvels. The satchel is one of many everyday objects in Swedish wonder-tales that conceal power. In the Swedish version the poor Niklas sees a troll take six grains from a leather satchel and grow an entire field of wheat in minutes; to win the satchel he must keep hold of it through the long night while the trolls shake the ground, send ghostly appa