Have you ever heard yourself described as “lovely as a troll”? Probably not. But in folklore trolls often looked just like normal people, and they could actually be beautiful too. Even though they were often unmasked by their tails which tended to stick out under their skirts or through a trouser leg. It was the artist John Bauer who gave us the image of trolls as being ugly with prominent noses. In the picture the troll is bending over the little farmstead in the forest and sniffing with his hugely long nose.