| All children´s nightmare is her. Check out our fan-page on facebook : www.facebook.com Cap 1 : 0:06 Cap 2 : 3:19 Cap 3 : 4:16 Cap 4 : 4:58 The Groke (original Swedish name Mårran and Finnish name Mörkö. Also known in Estonia as Urr, in Norway as Hufsa, in Japan and Poland as Buka, in Iceland as Morrinn, in France as La Courabou, in Russia and Germany as Morra, in Spain as La Bu, in Mexico as La Coca) is a fictional character in the Moomin world created by Tove Jansson. She appears as a ghostlike hill-shaped body with two cold staring eyes and a wide row of white shiny teeth. In the book Who Will Comfort Toffle?, it is mentioned that she has a tail, but it has never been seen. Wherever she stands, the ground below her freezes and plants and grass die. She leaves a trace of ice and snow when she walks the ground. Anything she touches will freeze and on one instance she froze a camp fire by sitting down on it. She seeks friendship and warmth, but she is declined by everyone and everything, leaving her in her cold cavern on top of the Lonely Mountains. On one occasion in a comic, however, she was hailed as a hero when she, in her constant search for warmth, extinguished a forest wildfire by sitting on it. The Moomins (Swedish: Mumintroll) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts[2] in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with ... |
