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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) [5,031 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) [1,977 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...")
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...")

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...")

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...")

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...")

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"

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...")

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...")

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...")

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