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| | Orkney Funerary Customs - The Varden |
 | | It could have human shape but, like the Orcadian varden, more often appeared as an animal, invisible to all but beasts and those with the second-sight. |
 | | In Norway, it was said that the shape a person's fylgje assumed revealed their personality.So, for example, a coward's fylgje would be a rabbit, a cunning man would have a fox, while a greedy woman might have a pig. |
 | | In later tradition, the differences between the fylgje and the vardoger blurred somewhat so, like the trow and fairy of Orcadian lore, the two terms were often interchangeable. |
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