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Funen is especially rich in such relations . `` That cairn elevates itself at Christmas upon four red posts , and one can then see the dance and merriment of the goblins within . Through that peasant 's farm there drives every night a glowing coach , drawn by four coal-black horses . Where we now see a pond overgrown with reeds and roots there once stood a church , but it sank as the godless desecrated it ; at midnight we still hear their sighs , and hymns of repentance . '' It is true that the narrator mixed up together certain leg-ends which related to other places in the country -- that he took little springs , and mingled his own thoughts with his relations ; but Otto listened to him with great interest . The discourse turned also upon the family at the hall . `` Yes , they are very much liked ! ''