...about Moomins

In Finnish folklore, when a hippo is murdered its vengeful ghost haunts the fiords as a moomin. The moomins are cursed to plod across the dark, gloomy afterworld, harried forever by the hideous Min, a sort of evil goblin-witch that wears a lampshade on its head (see "Minka House"). The moomins feature in ancient Finnish sagas which are a kind of oven bought by posh Finns. In the ancient legends of Finland, such as those made up by Tove Jansen (see "Tove Jansen"), they were herded into battle by the mins, usually against Boromir (see "Prog Rock").
Tove Jansen took this delicate and charming folklore about ghostly hippos and used it to hide subversive and racist propaganda - using the Moomin itself to represent the fat, docile, lazy and often hedonistic West being harrowed by the crafty, devious, and wicked Orient under the guise of Min, or Min the Merciless.