C32. Nail Ship. 31.

Demonic characters will make a ship out of nail scraps.

Baltoscandia. Scandinavians [When the gods die, the Naglfar ship will sail from the nails of the dead, so the dying must cut their nails; the ship is ruled by the giant Hrum; the wolf Fenrir swallows Odin; Vidar steps on the wolf's lower jaw; Vidar's shoe is made of scraps from the cut of all shoes (whoever wants to help the aces must throw these scraps)]: Younger Edda 1970:51-53; Finns [from an evil spirit makes a ship on which he takes the dead to his nails cut on Sunday]: Holmberg 1927:75; Estonians (Saarema) [a ship will make a devil out of nail scraps; sooner, to Divide Saarem into pieces, he dug the Maadewahe River, sailed by ship, but the sorcerer drowned the ship; to prevent the hell from building a new one, you have to burn your nails]: Masing 1998:70.