Despite Fillmore's belief that faithful translations would sound bald and monotonous, some of his choices - made to sanitize the stories for children - are no less stiff. In a stumpily-titled "Log", his truncation of "Leppäpölkky eli Sininen risti" (Leppäpölkky or the Blue cross), a many-headed monster emerges from the dark ocean to utter an evil incantation: "Fee, fi, fo, fum!