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Been the obscure counterpart of the High Elves, the Dökkálfar (Old Norse "Dark Elves", singular Dökkálfr) commonly called Dark Elves, they resided in Svartalfheim. The Dark Elves hated the sun and it's sunlight, because if they were touched or exposed to it they would immediately turn into stone. They used to annoy and threaten humans, to the point that nightmares were thought to be produced by the Dark Elves. These Dark Elves were called mare. A mare would sit on a sleeping person’s chest and whisper bad dreams to haunt the person. These elves could also haunt animanls, specially horses