This is truly a living cultural heritage! Unless passers-by throw a stick at the pile, both the exciting story and the pile itself would eventually disappear.
Mångelskhögen is a memorial site of the more unusual kind. On the site, once long ago, a murder took place. To prevent the dead man from walking again and to protect himself from accidents, passers-by began to throw a dry twig or branch on the site. Soon it became a big pile. The custom is called sacrificial throwing and used to be practiced in many places around Sweden where someone had died a sudden or unnatural death. Sometimes twigs were thrown, other times coins or stones.
Today Mångelskhögen is located on a quiet forest road, but the road has a history as a well-used highway called Tingsvägen. Two moonshiners once met here on their way from the market. (A moonshiner was a tradeswoman who carried her wares on her back.) The women got into an argument with each other and it ended so badly that one was beaten to death.
The forest road is blocked, so you can't drive to the site, but you can cycle or walk there.
