In the middle of the 19th century, in a province of Denmark, there was a small village called Elsimore, surrounded by oaks, corms, pines and birches. In this village there was a man named Dan, his wife Helga and their daughter Aneka. They lived in harmony with their neighbors and were very respected by all. Dan’s daily work to support his family was as lumberjack at the woods a bit far from the village. His little Aneka was always by his side, playing around while waiting for him to finish his job. Helga was always telling Dan to be careful with their child because the woods had many dangers. And he always answered that was nonsense and that she should not to worry that much.
One day Dan finished the job and went after Aneka, as usual. It was time to go home. But he didn’t find her at where she used to play, not even on the surroundings. He searches for Aneka into the woods desperately, forgetting that the night was coming followed by all the dangers that come with it. He roamed for hours, but there was no sign of the little girl.
At home and unaware about what was going on at the woods, Helga cooks dinner happy and singing. As the hours goes by, she worries with the unusual delay of her husband and daughter. After a while, she gathered some neighbors and they went out looking for the missing. They went through the usual Dan’s workplace and its surroundings but it was in vain. No sign of Dan and Aneka.
Months and years passed until a friend of the couple who was also a lumberjack found a human skeleton away from the forest, which was eventually confirmed as the remains of Dan. There were beetles all over the skeleton. The friend told Helga about his finding and in deep despair she rushed to the woods with him, facing nonstop snowfall, hoping that it was all about a mistake. When they arrived at the finding spot, they were very surprised to find between the bushes only an ax with the name of Dan engraved on the handle. The skeleton was no longer there.
They got back to the village frightened and with no understanding about what have happened. Unable to accept the situation, Helga asks the friend to go with her to double check the place where the ax was found because she thought that the skeleton could have been dragged by a nocturnal animal to somewhere.
On the next day, they went back to the woods intensifying the search on the surroundings but nothing was found. Disappointed, Helga and the friend take the way back home. Suddenly, the snowfall got worse. Distressed by the snowfall the peasants searched for shelter and found a little hut lost deep in the woods. As they walked in, they found out that it used to be a barbershop. It was filled with beetles and cobwebs. The two friends could not go anywhere. They started to search for things that could be useful to spend the night. While the fellow friend was looking for dry wood to light the fireplace and heat the frozen hut, Helga startled with a noise from the backgrounds of the hut. She had the nerve to go towards the noise and came across a human skeleton with a beetle in the orbit of each eye. The skeleton gestured because he wanted to say something that Helga, absolutely petrified, could not understand. The friend get back from the hut’s depot with the dry wood and saw Helga completely terrified and also began to panic with that hideous scene and both ran from the hut despite the strong snowfall. Dan’s and his daughter Aneka’s remains were never found and no one ever knew what happened although it was much talked by all people of the village. These events became known as the legend of Cavera Beetle, the skeleton wit beetles in the eyes orbits, story told by Helga.
The legend says that in that hut lived a man of skeletal look with a long grey beard. He was a barber that helped the brave errants that sometimes stopped over there seeking for his services. There was always a little girl along with the barber, she was believed to be his daughter but that theory has never been proved. The legend always had an enigma: could the barber and the little girl be Dan and his daughter Aneka? And if they were, why didn’t they ever come back?