"I had a racoon family living under my house. I was told to spill lutefisk there and it worked, the racoons are gone. But now I have problem with the Norwegian family living under my house..."
Go yo any village in northern Norway, and you'll see rack after rack of fish drying (they don't use clothes pegs, though). If you have your car window open, you always know when the next village is near.
I have never seen anything like that line of drying fish; in fact, I had, at first, a hard time figuring out what it was. I guess it is more common in cultures where fishing is a meal, not a sport.