Welcome to Litsy!

When I first saw this book, I thought it was going to be a short book filled with illustrations, a story, with a little bit of science. This is a 166 page children‘s story about secrets, death, and mountain legends. No doubt this beautiful phenomenon has inspired countless mythological tales that span the globe, over the centuries. I hope to be able to experience it one day. A cute little book for kids who are curious and love science.

I am your giant, rarely seen; I am your self made magnificent. Stand and wander at my size, my splendor. I hang and haze, float above chasms; I bestried the mountain. Caught sunlight halos my head. I am your ghost, your phantom, your spectrum. No more can you catch me than trap a cloud, snare a sunbeam, snatch a speeding swallow. Do not tremble. Fear me only as you fear yourself. I am as dark as your fears, airy as your hopes. Heavy as your

There was no escaping the mountain ghost. It was there in his mind, waiting till he was too sleepy to push it away. It filled his thoughts, huge and shadowy. The Brockenspectre followed you. Pappi had said so. Tomas felt as if it was following him, though he‘d never really seen it. You couldn‘t be sure what creatures lived up there in the snowy heights. There were legends. There were stories. Sometimes people saw strange, unexplained footprints.