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05:1805:18, 15 August 2025 The Three Maidens at Leutstetten (hist | edit) [3,831 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Franz Frankl Schloss Leutstetten.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the cellars of the castle ruins on the Karlsberg three beautiful maidens have been imprisoned by sorcery, and there they wait for release. During the Holy Night people have seen lights on the hill and heard the maidens sing. There are three large iron chests in the cellars beneath the castle, one of which is filled with gems, the other with pearls, and the third with copper pennies. T...")

18:5018:50, 14 August 2025 A Walrider in Barßel (hist | edit) [1,596 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Barßel Polder.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A man from Barßel once cut his grain at night, and, since he became tired around midnight, he laid down beneath a haystack in order to sleep. Then, from a distance, a lovely singing approached, and came closer and ever closer until it was almost adjacent to the resting man. Then, he saw that it was a walrider whose song he had heard and who had traveled here with her boat from England. She put her milk s...")
18:0318:03, 14 August 2025 The Greatest Treasure (hist | edit) [1,554 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Hermann (Arminius), by Augustus Tholey .jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Within the Hermannsburg,(*) the old dwarves guard incredible treasures and valuables. Pearls lie there, golden apples, diamonds and rubies piled up in heaps; ancient, spicy wine is stored in barrels of wine diamonds (the wooden barrels have rotted away centuries ago); golden roses and silver lilies grow in subterranean gardens. And if only someone knows at what times the mountain...")

18:1418:14, 13 August 2025 The Brave Girl in Ohmes (hist | edit) [2,361 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Antrifttal Ohmes Catholic Church Grotto.png}}|right|362px|caption]] Farmers sat together in the pub in Ohmes in Upper Hesse and were in a good mood. They were loud and merry. Between all the speeches, bets, and toasts, they hit on the idea of drinking wine for once instead of schnapps and beer, even though no one in the village had the keys to a wine cellar. When seeing their long faces after all their bold speeches, the publican’s daughter —...")
04:5304:53, 13 August 2025 The Shepherd and the Forest Woman (hist | edit) [1,487 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Neustadt an der Orla, Heinrichs Ruhe, Blick zur Stadt-4.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Near the village of Knau, in the Ziegenrück area, a shepherd chose a forest woman as his lover. He always herded his sheep at the same location. The master shepherd thought to himself: “How can they graze for enough food at this spot?” and snuck after the shepherd. There, the whole herd was lying in the thickets, and the shepherd and the forest woman held each...")

18:0918:09, 12 August 2025 Witches Make Butter (hist | edit) [7,381 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Wildemann.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There was a woman in Wildemann who made a pact with the Devil. She also traded with butter, and the Devil gave her a bag with something inside, but nobody knew what exactly it was. She was supposed to put the bag beneath her butter churn whenever she churned butter. She had done this for many years when she had to go to the baking hut one day, and her daughter was visiting a neighbor. The neighbor was also chu...")
17:5117:51, 12 August 2025 A Maidservant is abducted by the Wild Army (hist | edit) [1,382 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Sommerhausen BW 16.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] In Sommerhausen, two maidservants went to their bedroom chamber together. When one was already lying in her bed and the other one was undressed apart from her nightgown, the Raging Army passed over the village with loud hunting calls and the sound of horns. The one who was still up looked out of the window and listened to the beautiful music that the wild huntsmen were blowing on their horns. She like...")

18:3018:30, 11 August 2025 The Fiery Dragon in Riedheim (hist | edit) [3,187 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Riedheim rEglise 34 (1) (1).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Oral tale. Told to the author by a now-deceased daughter of the village teacher.) All the people in Riedheim know that a fiery dragon flies around during the hours of the night, when everyone in the village is asleep. It twists into the openings of the attic storerooms, retrieves grains and other supplies, and then puts them into other storerooms. One of the last few village teachers, who w...")
17:2317:23, 11 August 2025 The Journey to Paradise (hist | edit) [6,879 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Glishorn-briglina.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Many years ago, a tinkerer lived in Schattenhalb who struggled to support his family with his trade. Once, he had peddled through all villages along the shadow side until he found no further work there. Tired and sad he traveled along the Rhone river to the sun side at the village of Guttet. He received no answer from the houses at which he knocked, and only met the old village priest at his home. When...")
16:2916:29, 11 August 2025 The Wild Huntsman in the Odenwieserwald Forest (hist | edit) [4,029 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Achslach um 1850.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] Many hundreds of years ago, a charcoal burner lived in the Odenwieserwald forest. He had a single beautiful and virtuous daughter named Lili. One day, while her father was at the charcoal pile, Lili walked into the forest to gather strawberries, her father’s favorite. She went deep into the forest and gathered many berries when she came to a small stream. There she saw a large man with a pale face sit...")
04:5304:53, 11 August 2025 Curse and Blessing of the Wild Maidens (hist | edit) [2,022 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Fritz Lach Blick auf Johnsbach 1912.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A long time ago, a herder drove his cattle to the Plösch for grazing. Then the Wild Maidens arrived, and one of these even sat down on the back of an ox and let herself be carried by it. But the herder, who was a coarse and callous man, drove the friendly spirits away with his whip. Then the Wild Maidens proclaimed a curse that no feed for the animals should grow in this area of the...")
04:2904:29, 11 August 2025 The Last Lindwurm (hist | edit) [1,143 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kleiner See, Blankenhof.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The last lindwurm in the Gevezi area was killed by a cowherd. This cowherd encountered it sleeping on the Lindberg hill. He believed it to be a fir tree that had been toppled by the wind. He sat down on it, and wondered where the cut-off tree stump was. Since he was tired, he decided to light a pipe. He took a flintstone, steel, and firestarter, and began to make a fire. Meanwhile, the lindwurm w...")
04:0804:08, 11 August 2025 The Mountain Rapture - Emperor Charlemagne (hist | edit) [6,733 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Peasant with Cow and Calf, in the Unterberg near the Berchtesgaden MET DP824244.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The belief of the people in a new, better world is closely tied to the notion that its heroes will reawaken again. These heroes have been enchanted (cursed, raptured) into hollow mountains where they slumber until the day where the fate of the world will be decided. But then they will wake up in order to fight the Final Battle. In the Unter...")
03:4103:41, 11 August 2025 The Sleeping Army (hist | edit) [1,986 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Oldenburger Wall - panoramio.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] During Catholic times, when there were still monasteries everywhere in the region, the monks in the monastery at Mönchsneversdorf led the most godless of lives. No woman in the entire region had peace from them. They forced people out of their beds, abducted them, and then made them excavate and shore up a large subterranean tunnel for them at night. This tunnel terminated near Putlos on th...")

19:2119:21, 10 August 2025 The Snake's Salvation (hist | edit) [2,332 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Schwarzwaelder Bauernhaus um 1900.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A woman from Kippenheim, who was in an advanced stage of her pregnancy, once slept at noon in the vineyards of the area. Then a snake crawled into her open mouth. Her small daughter, who was sitting next to her and noticed this, attempted to grab the snake by its tail and pull it back. But it was too late, it slithered into the body of the woman and vanished within it. There it remained...")
12:3312:33, 10 August 2025 Vineta (hist | edit) [6,001 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Zwineta in einer Karte von dem Herzogtum Pommern, Kupferstich um 1564.png}}|right|362px|caption]] On the northeastern coast of Usedom island, it is frequently possible to see the ruins of an old, large city within the ocean during calm weather. Once the world-famous city of Vineta was located there, which came to a horrible end more than a thousand years ago due to its vices and lusts. This city was larger than any other city in Europe, even the l...")
07:3707:37, 10 August 2025 The Night Hunt near Wolfratshausen (hist | edit) [971 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:St. Sebald Egling.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Near the pilgrimage church at the Meadow there is a small forest. Once a woman went on a pilgrimage to the Meadow and wanted to rest at an inn, as it was night. She saw many lights and there was plenty of food on the tables, but all guests were unknown to her. Frightened, she exclaimed: “Jesus! Maria! Where am I?” Suddenly she sat high up on a fir tree, and there were horse droppings in front of he...") originally created as "The Night Hunt near Wolfrathshausen"
05:3305:33, 10 August 2025 The Wish Horse (hist | edit) [6,987 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Svetlogorsk promenade 2021-08 2.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] 1) During the French time, about 1807 or so, the widow M. from Rauschen (who still lived at the time) went into the Gausup Gorge together with the current publican M. from the same village, who already was a handsome boy at this time. They did this because a heavy storm was raging, and she wanted to see if a ship was going to beach itself. The poor boy became deathly tired from the consta...")
04:1704:17, 10 August 2025 The Wild Hunt at Surheim (hist | edit) [888 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Saaldorf-Innenansicht.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] A young man once stood on a crossroads during a Losnacht night in order to learn who his future wife would be. He heard a voice which commanded him to go to church the next morning where he would see her. As he walked into the church, his face was scratched up by unseen forces, but he did see the girl he would later marry. '''Source:''' [https://archive.org/details/bayerischesagen00unkngoog/page/n...")
03:5803:58, 10 August 2025 The Maiden Lorenz (hist | edit) [13,365 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Feuchtwiese am Abend.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, there was a delicate maiden who lived in Tangermünde, and she was called Emerentia Lorenz. She flowered with the freshness of youth and a comely shape, and when she walked through the streets — adorned with a brightly lit gown which her own delicate hands and spun and woven — then all stood still, and looked fondly as she passed by, and spoke: “This is our lovely maiden Lorenz, the orna...")
03:3603:36, 10 August 2025 The Devil’s Grandmother (hist | edit) [4,604 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Gierather Wald - Fichtenforst.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Close to Bensberg in the village of Herkenrath (whose names alone hint of pre-Christian ages) there is a place in the forest between traces of old walled moats. This location has been named the “weichen Hahn” by the people who created the local land register (and who were apparently unfamiliar with the local dialect). However, it is called the “wichen Hain” (“heiligen Hain”/”h...")

14:3114:31, 9 August 2025 The Spirit Appears as the Wife (hist | edit) [2,395 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Coburg-Ehrenburg1.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Duke Johann Kasimir had a stable master of noble lineage, and this man had the strange experience that a spirit frequently appeared to him in the form of his still-living wife, which disturbed him greatly. Just like the wife wore particular clothes, so did the spirit and regularly appeared during the noon hour from eleven to twelve o’clock. For this reason, the wife never went anywhere without compan...")
12:3412:34, 9 August 2025 The Man in Two Places (hist | edit) [1,249 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:GER Wuppertal Eigenbruch 001 2012 - Winterberger Weg.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A poor man from Dönberg once was condemned to a short prison term as a punishment. One day, he set out to serve his sentence. In the evening of the same day, his kin went to bed at the usual time. When the adult daughter woke up the next morning, she immediately rose to prepare the coffee. After she had finished brewing it, she went to the bedroom to bring her mother...")

16:2216:22, 8 August 2025 The Störtebeker Saga (hist | edit) [6,777 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Stoertebeker1.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] When the memories of events and individuals live on in the tales of the people for centuries after the fact, it is safe to conclude that these made a deep impression on their contemporaries. The trappings of the same are altered multiple times in legends, but the core of the story remains. One such set of events were the pirate raids of the so-called Victual Brothers in the Baltic and North Seas at the end...")
15:1115:11, 8 August 2025 The Skull Spider (hist | edit) [1,426 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:2008 0707 80670 Hiking in South Tyrol Naturns R0633.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] This spooky spider has already been mentioned above on p. 70, legend 10, as well as p. 119, legend 32. It lives in the Wildg’fahr cave at the Rosnerwald estate on the Sonnenberg mountain of Naturns. It is described as very large and with long feet, and its body has a form and appearance identical to that of a skull. Once, a farmer dared to go into the cave, and imme...")

17:3117:31, 7 August 2025 TestSMW (hist | edit) [48 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Property test: Property name::Property value")

18:0918:09, 5 August 2025 The Ship of Hell (hist | edit) [3,213 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Neuharlingersiel.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There have long been complaints that the chancellors serving the lords of East Frisia did not work to the land’s weal, but to its woe. But the reign of no other chancellor has ended with such hearty cries of “Farewell” as the one of Justus von Wetter. Wetter was a true plague, a scourge on his subjects. The people of Harland, the stepchildren of the East Frisian noble house, in particular suffered...")
17:2417:24, 5 August 2025 The Witches' Palace (hist | edit) [1,748 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Grotte 14-18 DSCN3792.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, a forester from Dürlinsdorf named Farin went into the Stöcketen forest between one and two o’clock in the morning in order to wait for game. Then he suddenly perceived beautiful music. And where a dark forest had stood the day before, a mighty palace with shining battlements rose up just before him. Astonished, he approached the palace. It was brightly lit, and a great mass of people move...")
16:5816:58, 5 August 2025 The Smith of Mitterbach (hist | edit) [7,858 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Berchtesgaden.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Many, many years ago there was a smith living in Mitterbach who was bad at maintaining his household and lost all his money to drinking and gambling. Eventually, he was so desperate that he called on the evil Adversary for aid. Thus summoned, the Devil appeared, and the foolish smith dedicated himself to the latter with body and soul by his own blood signature — the Devil should have him, as long as he w...")
15:4915:49, 5 August 2025 The Long Horse (hist | edit) [1,773 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Andreas Juuel - Parti fra Aabenraa.png}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, on a Sunday evening, the young people of the village Kassöe near Apenrade wanted to go to Hüdewad in order to dance. But when they reached the stream which was flowing between the two villages, they could not cross it, for it had swollen significantly due to the rain which had fallen recently. When they looked around, they noticed an old horse which was standing nearby. Then t...")

18:0218:02, 4 August 2025 How The Cobbler Escaped Destitution (hist | edit) [8,243 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Gravelotte Meesiger 2021-09-09 04.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There once was a cobbler who was doing very badly. Leather was expensive and had to be paid for immediately, and the customers were very miserly and often waited weeks until they paid him for this work. In his desperation, the cobbler thought of all sorts of ways out of this situation, when suddenly someone knocked at the door. “Come in!”, shouted the cobbler. The door opened, and a...")
17:0217:02, 4 August 2025 The Race for the Sacrificial Money (hist | edit) [4,053 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Dom St. Nikolai (Greifswald).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] (See Mierälius Part II, p. 407. Poetic treatments are in Freyberg, “Pommersche Sagen”, Pasewalk 1835 p. 32 and in Ziehnert Vol. I p. 131ff) There once was a chapel dedicated to Saint Gertrude in front of the city of Greifswald. This chapel was a popular pilgrimage site. On one particular holy day dedicated to the saint, a lot of money had been donated there. It was the duty of the prie...")
16:4216:42, 4 August 2025 The Bowling Farmers (hist | edit) [892 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Der Watzmann (C D Friedrich).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] At night, farmers regularly play bowling at the crossroads between Mettman and Lüttges. These farmers used to regularly play bowling at a nearby bowling alley while still alive. When they play, they rarely do so without strife and quarrels. The farmers use their skulls as bowling balls, and their arm and leg bones must take the place of the pins. They have often been seen by night-time wan...")
15:1015:10, 4 August 2025 Alfhausen and the Alkenkrug Pub (hist | edit) [6,434 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Alkenkuhle 3.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, there were only eleven houses where the village of Alfhausen is located now. The people who inhabited it belonged to the church parish of Merzen. On every Sunday and holiday, they walked across the heath towards the holy house of Merzen. But the way there was long, and the mood of the churchgoers always brightened when they came close to the barrows on this lonely stretch of land. Here, as the locals...")
14:0914:09, 4 August 2025 The Old Mill in Klein-Glienicke (hist | edit) [5,055 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Griebnitzsee Potsdam Berlin.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Many centuries ago, when the areas surrounding the blue river Havel were still inhabited by the Slavic tribe of the Wends, the land (which was beneath the waves of the ocean in ancient times) was covered everywhere with forests and swamps. Every year, when the snow melted, the waters spilled far out of their riverbeds. The higher elevations then rose up like islands above these waters, and as...")
13:4813:48, 4 August 2025 The Devil Fetches Card Players (hist | edit) [1,488 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:20030707220DR Wesenberg (Mecklenburg) Marienkirche zum Altar.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] On an interior wall of the St. Marien church in Wesenberg, there used to be a large bloody spot, about whose origin the following tale was told. Many, many years ago, two of the churchgoers played cards with each other during mass while sitting in a corner close to the wall. Suddenly, the church walls burst and the Devil appeared in the newly formed gap. Immed...")

10:1910:19, 1 August 2025 Of Murderous Dead People (hist | edit) [3,819 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Trutnov, Jihoslovanská.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] In the year 1617 it occurred in Eibenschütz in Moravia that an honorable citizen who had been buried in the churchyard always rose up in the night from his grave and murdered people. Each time he did so, he pulled off his funeral gown, and he put it on again when he returned. When the guards on the tower once saw this, they took his gown away. When he returned to the grave and did not find his g...")
05:5805:58, 1 August 2025 Spielkässer on the Iddelsfeld Hardt (hist | edit) [3,860 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Dellbrücker Heide.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Spielkässer, whose memory is still held in high esteem in the Rhineland, and whose fiddling made every festivity more splendid, once drove from his abode on the Birkhahnenberg hill near Steinbüchel towards a marksmen’s festival in Siegburg. Around midnight, he drove over the Iddelsfeld Hardt, which is said to be an uncanny place. But he drove without fear, since he had loaded his rifle and put it...")

18:4918:49, 31 July 2025 The Stone Cross in the Teufelsthal Valley (hist | edit) [20,032 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kynau Kynsburg Sammlung Duncker.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There once was a devout and good-natured girl named Emmeline who lived in quiet, rather monastic solitude with her aunt, Frau Klara. She was wholly separated from all the world, remote from all worldly things. Frau Klara had once lived among the throngs of people and found that all allures of such a life were not worth the splendors that are promised to be revealed to us one day. Thus, sh...")

18:3818:38, 30 July 2025 The Teufelsmühle (hist | edit) [6,064 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Große Teufelsmühle 2018.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the parts of the Harz mountain range close to Bernburg there is a tall mountain called the “Ramberg” and which is located three hours distant from Ballenstedt. On its worn-down surface there are vast granite rocks piled on top of each other in strange formations, and large and small pieces of granite are scattered in a radius of a thousand steps downhill. It is likely that they once form...")

04:4904:49, 29 July 2025 The Wild Hunt Escarpment at Berchtesgaden (hist | edit) [1,371 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Der Watzmann (C D Friedrich).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Near Berchtesgaden there is a rock formation called the “Gjoadwand” (“Wild Hunt Escarpment”). There is a spring within this rock which only flows intermittently. When it stops flowing, people can restart it by shouting the following phrase into the rock: “Gjoad! Gjoad! Lass den Schuss los!” (“Wild Hunt! Wild Hunt! Release your shot!”, i.e. let the water flow.) Some claim that...")

18:0318:03, 28 July 2025 The Dead Bride (hist | edit) [3,882 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Neu-Windeck 01.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Lauf Castle, which is usually called Neu-Windeck, is said to have been uninhabited for a long time before its destruction, as its hauntings could be heard day and night. During that period, a young knight who was foreign to this region sought hospitality in this castle. He had difficulties with finding the entrance during the darkness of the night. The courtyard was covered by tall grass, and his shouts e...")
17:4117:41, 28 July 2025 The Attempted Host Desecration (hist | edit) [1,995 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kloster Walderbach 015.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In Walderbach in the Upper Palatinate, a woman once went to the Eucharist, but did not swallow the host. Instead, she let it drop on a white cloth and hurried out of the church. When she reached the Stockhof estate and spread out the cloth, the host rose up in the air and continually hovered at a height which the desecrator was unable to reach. Pigs and sheep which were grazing here lowered themse...")
16:2516:25, 28 July 2025 The Walking Corpse at Erfurt (hist | edit) [1,563 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Erfurt budynek Michaelisstr 49 1.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] (After Remigius ''“Daemonolatria Vol. II”'', p. 126 and p. 247) Around the time of Martin Luther, there was a young student in Erfurt who had fallen deeply in love with a maiden. He sought the advice of one of his comrades who knew the magical arts. And this comrade promised him that, as long as he refrained from hugging her, he would make the beloved maiden appear before him with h...")
13:4013:40, 28 July 2025 Summoning of the Poor Soul (hist | edit) [3,140 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Pflugdorf v. Vilgertshofen.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] It was in the late fall of 1847 when eighteen inhabitants of Pflugdorf — mainly from the Grötz family — joined together to summon a poor soul under the guidance of a man from Württenberg, who served with the innkeeper as a cowherd. They wanted to ask this poor soul to provide them with a buried treasure. This treasure was the reason why the soul was unable to find peace, and by handing i...")
09:3909:39, 28 July 2025 Treasure Hunters in Wesenberg (hist | edit) [2,015 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Morgenstimmung im Nebel im Landschaftsschutzgebiet Neustrelitzer Kleinseenplatte bei Wesenberg (2).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] At the end of the previous and the beginning of the current century there was a whole group of treasure hunters pursuing their trade in Wesenberg and the surrounding villages. Their usual place of rest between their excavations was the Prelauker or Belower Theerofen whose owners were keen participants in the digging, thoug...")
09:1509:15, 28 July 2025 The Bell of Dambeck in Röbel (hist | edit) [1,996 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Röbeler Kirchen.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The church of Dambeck, whose walls still stand, is ancient and predates the Deluge. The tower with its bells, however, has sunk into the lake, and in old times people frequently saw the bells coming out of the lake on St. John’s Day and lounge in the sun. At one time, several children went out to bring the lunch bread to their parents working in the fields, and, as they arrived, they sat down on the s...")
04:5804:58, 28 July 2025 The Infernal Trousers (hist | edit) [10,076 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Lüderich 1892.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A poor farmer once lived close to the famous Lüderich mountain, in a small village near the Sülz, which is a tributary of the Agger river. This farmer did not even have the slightest stroke of luck in his life. Once, he complained about this to an old friend of his, who lived on the other side of this small forest stream, and for whom, in contrast to the poor farmer, every effort turned into the greates...")
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...")

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...")

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