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6 priests in black vestments, are often seen at midnight walking about and muttering strange rhymes—There are several places at which he rests himself in his wanderings. People say he has a bed-room with two beds at Wallæe castle, and there he sometimes spends then night in the form of a black dog. In this room stand two large chests, which, when opened once, were found filled with those little round pieces of leather which formed the only species of money known in Waldemar's time. A subterranean passage connects Wallœe castle with Tœllœschof castle; where also Waldemar has a sleeping roam, and where in ancient times it was event usual to keep a servant for his special use. Sometimes he rests himself at Wordingburg, in Waldemar's tower, or in the ruins of the castle, where the ghosts of people who appear to have belonged to his own times, are yet seen going about and making the beds. A peasant who would not believe that the king ever visited this tower at night, once ventured to spend the night there. At midnight the king appeared to him, and greeting him in a friendly tone, said: "Thank you for keeping watch in my tower!" He also gave him a piece of gold but when the peasant took it, it burned a round hole in his hand and fell like a coal upon the ground. From this people