A Folktale From Sweden
It was haymaking time at Skorhult and the farm labourers were busy in the fields. A thunderstorm came up and the workers hurried into a cottage for shelter. Suddenly the chimney was struck and the chimneybreast exploded. A black bundle rolled out of the hole above the hearth, it looked like a coal sack and something seemed to be inside it, kicking to be let out. The bundle rolled out of the door and down to the lake. Lightning struck the bundle again and it disappeared.
Jonte, one of the farm labourers had second sight and his colleagues asked him what had occurred. Jonte replied that there had been a troll hiding in the chimney. The thunder had taken off one of its legs with the first strike and killed it with the second.
From: The Penguin Book of Scandinavian Folktales, Edited by Jacqueline Simpson, Penguin, 1994.
(An interesting explanation to why supposedly benevolent dieties (both Christian and heathen) damage the property of innocent folk. This story has clear links to the Norse thunder god.)