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29 July 2025
- 04:4904:49, 29 July 2025 The Wild Hunt Escarpment at Berchtesgaden (hist | edit) [1,279 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...")
28 July 2025
- 18:0318:03, 28 July 2025 The Dead Bride (hist | edit) [3,805 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) [1,907 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) [1,589 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) [3,018 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) [1,824 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) [1,897 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) [9,968 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) [2,715 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) [2,557 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) [1,695 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) [2,200 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) [13,808 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) [3,706 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) [19,226 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) [1,819 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) [938 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) [3,481 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) [35,766 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) [800 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) [1,756 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) [2,724 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) [3,731 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...")