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12 September 2025

  • 17:5717:57, 12 September 2025 The Blades of Solingen (hist | edit) [13,122 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Meves Berns - Light Sword for Civilian Use - Walters 511387.jpg|A sword from Solingen.|The Blades of Solingen|12|North Rhine-Westphalia|{{Coordinates|51.171944,7.084722}}}} The art of forging blades of a quality and excellence which approaches those of the world-famous Damascus steel was not yet known in Solingen in the 16th century. While there was no lack of good weaponsmiths who strived to copy the artful people of the Orient, none of them had succeeded, an...")
  • 16:4716:47, 12 September 2025 The Baker's Boy in the Karlsberg Hill (hist | edit) [2,690 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Poppenreuth.jpg|View of Poppenreuth near Fürth.|The Baker's Boy in the Karlsberg Hill|12|Bavaria|{{Coordinates|49.4799016, 10.9964186}}}} One evening a baker’s boy from Fürth, who sold bread rolls in the area, approached the Kaiser-Karls-Berg hill. Beautiful singing of unknown voices emerged from the hill. The boy stopped to listen. Suddenly, a little, ancient man appeared who spoke with the boy in a friendly manner. The boy told him of his troubles, for h...")
  • 16:2616:26, 12 September 2025 Within the Karlsberg Hill (hist | edit) [3,035 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Castle Nuremberg Sinwellturm 0231.jpg|Sinwellturm at Nuremberg Castle.|Within the Karlsberg Hill|12|Bavaria|{{Coordinates|49.4799016, 10.9964186}}</br>{{Coordinates|49.4578422, 11.0761553}}}} Once, a man was convicted to death because of the many crimes he had committed. The condemned, however, had great fear of his impending death and pitifully pleaded for his life — he asked to be imprisoned, walled in, banished, but not killed. His wailing pitied even the...")
  • 09:4109:41, 12 September 2025 The Branch Cutter (hist | edit) [1,526 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Maar mit Nebel 01.jpg|View of the Meerfelder Maar crater.|The Branch Cutter|12|Rhineland-Palatinate|{{Coordinates|50.074133,6.934347}}</br>{{Coordinates|50.064722,6.948333}}}} When the Swedes ravaged the land and their army was at Bengel, the nose and ears of one Swedish soldier were cut off at the mill of Scheidweiler after he had behaved in an extremely inappropriate manner. After this man arrived in their camp in this state, all soldiers called for revenge...")
  • 05:1905:19, 12 September 2025 Hackelberg's Dogs Tear a Woman Apart (hist | edit) [1,739 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Roloffshagen, Wall (2013-05-18), by Klugschnacker in Wikipedia (1).JPG|Forest path near Roloffshagen|Hackelberg's Dogs Tear a Woman Apart|12|Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|{{Coordinates|54.1709088, 12.9612435}}}} A man walked towards the forest when, suddenly, Hackelberg (Hâkelbârch) raced towards him and told him to hold his large, black dogs. The farmer agreed to this, for he knew that he would be killed himself if he defied Hackelberg. After he took the dogs’ c...")
  • 04:3204:32, 12 September 2025 The Herders' Curse (hist | edit) [1,910 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Bremke vom Ith.jpg|View from the Ith ridge towards Bremke.|The Herders' Curse|12|Lower Saxony|{{Coordinates|51.9918, 9.6211}}}} (From teacher Hanne in Opperhausen.) In old times, when all cattle stayed outside all day and night, the horses were also driven into the forest in the evening. Then it was not uncommon that a werewolf strangled a foal or some other animal. But the old herders knew a magical incantation which they could use to keep werewolves or any...")

11 September 2025

  • 18:2418:24, 11 September 2025 The Ring (hist | edit) [1,923 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Oppenau1.jpg|Aerial view of the town of Oppenau.|The Ring|12|Baden-Württemberg|{{Coordinates|48.4942,8.1309}}}} The Bärenburg Castle once stood in the valley of Oppenau, but its remains are no longer visible. Soon after its destruction, a legend arose that a great treasure of gold and other valuables was hidden there. A young, brazen squire from Bosenstein got it into his mind to unearth this treasure. His heart greatly desired riches, and a traveling schola...")
  • 16:1416:14, 11 September 2025 Wind's Brides (hist | edit) [5,459 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Alpe Netza-424087-120090.jpg|Alpine meadow near Sankt Gallenkirch.|Wind's Brides|11|Vorarlberg|{{Coordinates|47.04298605519503, 9.979148588678662}}</br>{{Coordinates|47.257222,10.092222}}}} a) Once, a man from the Montafon was cutting hay in the vicinity of the Zamang alpine pasture. There is a gathering spot for witches at Zamang which is infamous in the entire valley. It is circular and covered with black moss, and witches often danced on it in merriment. It...")

10 September 2025

  • 17:5417:54, 10 September 2025 Frau Gaur (hist | edit) [2,999 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Spornitz Friedensstraße 42 Pfarrhaus 02.jpg|Former parish house in Spornitz.|Frau Gaur|12|Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|{{Coordinates|53.279167,11.563333}}</br>{{Coordinates|53.4,11.716667}}}} In the regions surrounding Grabow, many people tell tales of “Frau Gaur”. She is believed to be a woman who travels through the air on a wooden sleigh of the kind that is still found among country people from time to time. This sleigh is pulled by dogs (wolves)[sic], and a...")
  • 16:0016:00, 10 September 2025 The Devil and the Teacher (hist | edit) [3,016 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Sidebar|Reinsfeld Pfarrhaus H1a.jpg|Catholic parish house in Reinsfeld.|The Devil and the Teacher|12|Rhineland-Palatinate|{{Coordinates|49.678611,6.878611}}}} In Reinsfeld, there once was a village teacher who was able to summon the Devil. During one night he did so at the request of four merry fellows, and commanded the Devil to bring 15 new thaler coins for each of them. Before that, he put the four of them in the middle of a chamber around a table, on which a bless...")

9 September 2025

  • 18:4318:43, 9 September 2025 Of Doctor Theophrast's Origin (hist | edit) [1,225 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin-left: 10px; width: 382px;" |[[File:{{#setmainimage:Cradle MET HR Cradle 10.125.672 Ret.jpg|362px|Old wooden cradle.]]{{Tale image|Cradle MET HR Cradle 10.125.672 Ret.jpg}} |} Even though much is written in books about the ancestry of Doctor Theophrast from Hohenheim, legend does not pay any heed to this. In Tyrol it is believed and said that Theophrast was a child of love, the son of a lofty nobleman. Others claim that his...")

8 September 2025

7 September 2025

  • 19:3819:38, 7 September 2025 The Legend of the Fuhrmannsberg Mountain (hist | edit) [2,026 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Vozka.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The Fuhrmannsberg mountain extends opposite to the Brünnlheide and the Köpernik Mountain. On its ridge, the mighty Fuhrmannsstein (“Carter’s Rock”) rises into the air, which, when viewed from a distance, shows the figure of a wagon with horses and a carter, and which consists of a large number of impressive rocks, which are stacked on each other almost horizontally. Legend gives the following origin for it...")
  • 19:1219:12, 7 September 2025 The Dwarves of the Bielstein Rock (hist | edit) [3,807 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Lautenthal (Harz), Niedersachsen - Marktplatz nach unten gesehen (Zeno Ansichtskarten).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] I. The Bielstein hill is located directly at the northeastern end of the mountain town of Lautenthal. Beneath it, on the northwestern end of the town, the Innerste river flows towards it in a northeastern direction. At its base, the river turns to the left and flows alongside it. Above this curve of the river, up the hill and only a f...")
  • 15:4215:42, 7 September 2025 The Green Iron Pig with the Tall Shrub (hist | edit) [883 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Grube Samson.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] An iron, green pig shows up in Andreasberg. It has once pulled the trousers off a miner. It has a tall, green shrub on its back, and has caused a lot of damage at the Geschneiten (Dohnenstiegen). It is also prone to changing its shape. For example, it once turned into a porcupine and a bird before the eyes of a miner, and it can make itself invisible as well. '''Source:''' [https://archive.org/details/bub_...")

5 September 2025

  • 15:0615:06, 5 September 2025 Frau Gode (hist | edit) [2,452 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Wredenhagen Dorfstr 75.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the Twelve Nights of Christmas, Frau Gode is abroad, and many people have encountered her during this time. Once a farmhand was in the stables with his horses as Frau Gode arrived. She handed him a pole and told him to hew a sharpened tip into the pole. At first he was reluctant, but, after she promised him a good wage, he agreed. When he was finished, she told him to keep and secure the wood s...")
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