A description of farm life in Sweden in the late 1800s as told by Alfred Johansson (born 1863). He recalls Christmas, St. Knut's Day (January 13) and St. Erik's Day (May 18), funeral customs, and accounts of various traditions and superstitions observed by people in rural Sweden. These included putting a snake into the cowshed for luck, and crossing the shafts of the ploughs, etc. used to work the fields in order to ward off witchcraft.