Quotation

Tønder: the swamp, the cattle, the mud, the bog, the beast and the women: Here, the earth rocks when you walk. The watertable's high here, you see. When it rains, the fields turn into a giant swamp. That's when the cattle sink in and have to be hauled out with chains. Once a cow sank so deep into the mud, it vanished. Six months later it turned up again, inflated like a balloon. It gave birth to a two-headed calf with a calf's head and a human head. You've got to keep such a freak out of sight. Everyone knows that. Still, the farmer kept it. Soon after the cattle got mad cows disease - and the women lost their unborn children and their minds. The men gathered at the bar, - and one early morning they dumped the beast in the bog - where it sank with a wretched roar. Since then, there hasn't been any fuss with neither cattle nor women.