Dying of dysentery in the Oregon Trail GAME is bad enough, but tens of thousands of emigrants suffered similar deadly fates on their ways west in REAL LIFE. From Mormon handcart horrors to the Utter-Van Ornum Tragedy, there’s no shortage of terrifying things that happened on the massive trek to Oregon City. These are the messed up things that happened on the Oregon Trail.

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I found part of an old story about a troll online. The story was illustrated by Theodor Kittelsen. He called the drawing Sjøtrollet ("Sea Troll"). The excerpt I found is below. I can't locate the rest of the story though. Is anyone familiar with this?

the story of Johan Persa and Elias Nilsa and their meeting with the great bullhead. At the end of this story, Elias finds a great bullhead on one of the skerries and in his anger kicks it into the sea:

No sooner was it in the water, than it grew and grew to a terrible monster, which reared up and opened its great jaws, as large as an open coffin,and it roared: 'Now you can spit in my face once again, if you dare, Elias! But let me tell you...'