Pesta

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Pesta comes from Scandinavian mythology from around the time of the Black Plague. She is depicted as an old hideous woman that carries a broom or a rake. If seen and is carrying a rake, it is said that some of the people in the family or the house will die, while if she is using a broom, everyone in the house was to die. She is associated with death and illnesses. 

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