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28 July 2025

• 04:3204:32, 28 July 2025 The Cursed Officers (hist | edit) [2,905 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Osterode Alley.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A captain of the soldiers who were once quartered in Osterode now haunts this town in the form of a dog. Every evening, around eleven o’clock, it appears at the upper mill666 at the part of the city wall called the “Schildwache”, and slowly walks along the Schildwache until it reaches the Johannistor gate, and turns around at the Johannisbrücke bridge and walks down past the depot, finally vanishin...")

27 July 2025

• 13:4013:40, 27 July 2025 St. Andrew's Night (hist | edit) [2,531 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Siemiradzki Noc-Andrzeja 1867.jpg}}|right|256px|caption]] Oral tale</br> Erasm. Francisci ''höll. Proteus''</br> Bräuner’s ''Curiositäten'', p. 91-93.</br> Goldschmid’s ''höll. Morpheus''. Hamb. 1698. P. 173, 174.</br> It is commonly believed that a girl can invite and see her future lover on the St. Andrew’s Night, St. Thomas’ Night, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. For this purpose, she needs to set a table for two, but there mu...")
• 04:4104:41, 27 July 2025 The Fluting Thing in the Owls' Gable (hist | edit) [1,779 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Wevelsfleth Farmhouse.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] (See “Jahrbuch für Schleswig-Holstein”, Volume IV, p. 157.) The legend is widespread in the Holstein region that a rooster who has lived for seven years in the exact same house will then lay an egg. A strange animal will come out of this egg which people call by different names: Dragon, crocodile, and so forth. A man named Swatkopf lived in the parish of Wewelsfleth. This man had a rooster w...")

26 July 2025

• 13:1313:13, 26 July 2025 Walrider - A Victim’s Tale (hist | edit) [2,301 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Holler- und Wittemoor (Bohlenweg) - 03.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A woman from the parish of Holle describes the plague as follows: “Because of those beings, I left the service of the Meher family, as I was constantly plagued by a walrider in their house for two years. Only when there were heavy winds and rain outside did I get some quiet. When I moved away, the mistress told me that the walrider would follow me to the new household I was going...")

25 July 2025

• 16:5616:56, 25 July 2025 Witches and Trudes (hist | edit) [14,040 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Friedberg Illustration Stumpf 1852.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Both of these only exist within the female sex, but can nonetheless be distinguished from another. It is understood that witchcraft represents a spell which is infernal and in opposition to the miracles coming from God. Spells can be learned from the black art, into which people are initiated via a pact with the Evil One. Thus, witchcraft is something learned, while truding is somethin...")

24 July 2025

• 19:3119:31, 24 July 2025 The Venetians and the Huntsman (hist | edit) [3,846 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:BruchbergWolfswarte.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A. Many years ago, there was a huntsman in Altenau who once laid down or slept on a meadow in the Schultal valley. Then two Venetians appeared, who always traveled to the Bruchberg mountain in order to extract the gold that no one else knew how to find. They woke him up, and asked if he could show them the way to the Bruchberg. The huntsman was well acquainted with the area, and led them there. At th...")
• 04:5204:52, 24 July 2025 Hulda and the Blessed Maidens (hist | edit) [20,126 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Franz Richard Unterberger - Ötztal.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Among the mythical beings appearing in the folk beliefs of the Tyrolean land, the Selige, Salige, or Blessed Maidens are the most distinguished. This overall designation is altered in some valleys, and they appear as Wild Maidens, Forest Women, Mountain Women, White Maidens, and even sometimes (though much more rarely) as Snow Maidens. The term Holy Ones is also encountered, without i...")
• 04:2104:21, 24 July 2025 Mutter Gauerken Brings the Plague (hist | edit) [1,961 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:1024px-RoggenstorfCarlBirckenstaedt.png}}|right|362px|caption]] In Rankendorf and Grevenstein near Dassow there was once an outbreak of the plague. This outbreak was triggered by events at the mill of Grevenstein. One evening, the journeyman miller and an apprentice were busy grinding flour which they were supposed to bring to the village of Pohnsdorf the next day. During the night, the apprentice stuck his head out of the door and heard a noise l...")

23 July 2025

• 19:0019:00, 23 July 2025 The Lindwurm at Murnau (hist | edit) [1,047 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Ein einzelner Baum inmitten des Murnauer Moos.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A long time ago, the town of Murnau used to be called “Wurmau” (“river plain of the Wyrm”) in honor of the lindwurm that used to live here — a beast that killed everything, humans and animals alike, and which no hunter could slay. Instead of defeating it in combat, someone finally had the idea of poisoning a calf and leaving it near the beast. The dragon consumed t...")
• 18:5618:56, 23 July 2025 Category:Panzer - Bayerische Sagen und Bräuche Erster Band (hist | edit) [419 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Köster - Alterthümer, Geschichten und Sagen der Herzogthümer Bremen und Verden.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] * '''Author:''' Friedrich Panzer * '''Published:''' 1847 = Repositories = * [https://archive.org/details/bayerischesagen00unkngoog/ Archive.org] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=6xQWAAAAYAAJ Google Books] * [http://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10377145-6 MDZ München] Category:Collection") originally created as "Panzer - Bayerische Sagen und Bräuche Erster Band"

22 July 2025

• 19:0019:00, 22 July 2025 The Spectacles near Lehe (hist | edit) [3,555 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:05 Dilich 1604.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the Leher Heide heath, to the right of the path from Lehe to the Veermoor, there are two circular bogs a short distance away from each other which have a resemblance to a pair of spectacles. They are, thus, also called the “Brille” and are owned by the local Lutheran parish. A few hundreds of steps to the north of these bogs, there are two hills which are also next to each other, but which have alr...")

21 July 2025

• 10:5910:59, 21 July 2025 Hinzelmann (hist | edit) [36,051 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "From the book: “Der vielförmige Hinzelmann oder umständliche und merkwürdige Erzählung von einem Geist, der sich auf dem Hause Hudemühlen und hernach zu Estrup im Lande Lüneburg unter vielfältigen Gestalten und verwunderlicher Veränderung sehen lassen.” 379 pages in 12. First written down by the priest Feldmann at Eickeloh.964 For a long time, a strange spirit dwelled on the old Hudemühlen Castle,which lies in the Lüneburg territory close to the river Alle...")

20 July 2025

• 18:5718:57, 20 July 2025 Ghostly Poodle (hist | edit) [916 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Pfaffentor(Teufelstor) Aquarell Wilhelm Schoener 1852.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Disguised as a black poodle, a student in Würzburg once terrorized the shield guard at the Teufelstor gate for several nights between eleven and twelve o’clock. However, he was eventually shot dead by the guard. As punishment, he must haunt that gate as a black poodle during the same hour of the night. '''Source:''' [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xVsAAAAAcAA...")
• 14:0714:07, 20 July 2025 Saint Conrad and the Poison Spider (hist | edit) [1,857 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the year 938 Saint Conrad, a “born Count of Altdorf” was (according to the chronicle of Dr. Speth) chosen to become the bishop of Constance. The city owed many donations and charitable endowments to him, such as the St. Conrad Hospital for the Poor, the St. Paul Parish Church, and the cenotaph of the grave of Jesus Christ within the cathedral. “As Pet. Canisius writes in his Martyrology, the holy man frequently walked across Lake Constance with dry feet. He divi...")
• 13:2913:29, 20 July 2025 Mass for the Ghosts (hist | edit) [2,970 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1. A devout woman, who lived next to the church, was once woken up during the night by singing emanating from there. Believing that it was morning mass, she hurriedly rose up, got dressed, put on her mantle, and went into the church, whose windows were lit. She sat down on her usual place, opened up her hymnbook and joined in the singing. Then, someone touched her shoulder and whispered to her: “Neighbor, it is late now and you should go home.” She turned around and...")
• 12:0712:07, 20 July 2025 The Ghosts' Meal (hist | edit) [3,843 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bräuner’s ''Curiositäten'', p. 336 — 340.92 Erasm. Francisci ''höll. Proteus'', p. 42693 When Frederick III of Denmark94 called for a public gathering in Flensburg, it occurred that a noble who had traveled there for the occasion could no longer find a room in the inn, as he had arrived late in the evening. The innkeeper told him that all the rooms were occupied except for a single large one. But he himself would not recommend staying there overnight, as it was h...")