Gustav Vasa did a lot of weird shit. He’s one of the most famous kings and no historian can really tell if he was a good or bad king. He, for example, raised taxes for children born outside marriages, which lead to the women who could not afford it sneakily killing their children (or just leaving them in the woods), which lead to the clergy trying to scare them off from doing that by saying that an un baptized child that dies would turn into a “myling” (one of those fun mythological creatures that you definitely don’t want to run into. They were also known to take your baby’s place and suck the life out of you when you breastfeed), and the myth of the myling would sooner of later get modernized into the current urban legend we have today of the black-eyed-children. :)
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