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15:2115:21, 3 September 2025 Sandbox2 (hist | edit) [510 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Test.")
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20:1020:10, 22 August 2025 The Stag of Quitschenberg Mountain (hist | edit) [779 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Riefensbeek.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, a lumberjack lived in Buntenbock who walked to Riefensbeek for work. When he came to the Quitschenberg mountain, a dead stag was lying in his path. When he stepped over the stag, it moved, jumped up, and ran away together with the lumberjack, who had ended up sitting on the stag’s back. Since then, nobody has seen the lumberjack again. '''Source:''' [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urhLAAAAYAAJ/p...")
04:5504:55, 22 August 2025 Frau Gauden (hist | edit) [7,514 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:HausausRaseneisenstein.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There once was a rich and lofty woman by the name of “Frau Gauden”. She was such a passionate huntress that she did not restrain herself from saying these sinful words: The hunt was better than Heaven, and as long as she was able to hunt for all eternity she would never want to enter Heaven. Frau Gauden had twenty-four daughters, and all of them shared the same desire. Once, when mother and da...")

18:3018:30, 21 August 2025 Another Summoning (hist | edit) [2,526 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Schondorf-Kapelle-Unterschondorf.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Around the middle of the 40s, a woman in Utting am Ammersee died soon after she had given birth to her first child. Child and mother stayed together. However, if a woman and her first child die soon after birth, then her child is put into her arms, and Heaven is opened to her in this manner. And she is carried to the grave like a maiden by other maidens, and a little maiden’s crown is...")
18:1818:18, 21 August 2025 The Summoning of the Dead (hist | edit) [1,692 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Walsburg 02.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In old times, a man named Hannikel lived in Eßbach. He was able to summon the dead, and indulged in sacrilegious traffic with them in order to reveal thefts with their aid or to discover what would occur in the future. When he wanted to learn things of this type, he secretly took the pick used by the undertaker which was used to dig up the graves. Then, between 11 and 12 o’clock at night, he walked to the...")
17:5617:56, 21 August 2025 The Crown of Radigast (hist | edit) [1,004 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Gadebuschkirche06.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] One of the remaining traces of the idol Radigast is a window frame in the church at Gadebusch, which is located inside the tower above the door. The legend states that this is the Crown of Radigast. This window frame has the form of a wheel and is made out of iron which, allegedly, has a high silver content. (See Francks altes und neues Mecklenburg. Lib. I. cap. XXIII.) The Schwerin Cathedral has a s...")
14:5714:57, 21 August 2025 Rhetra (hist | edit) [3,479 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Nonnenhof 12.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] In the province of Riedirerun or of the Redarians. the modern-day Strelitz there once was a city (where Prillwitz at the Tollense is located) named Ridegost. (Radigast. The author has confused the name of the city with that of the main idol, which had its temple in it)[sic]. The city was built as a triangle and had three gates, one at each corner. It was surrounded by a forest which was considered to be hig...")
08:1508:15, 21 August 2025 Hiddensee Island (hist | edit) [5,685 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Hiddensee, Dornbusch (2011-05-21).JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] To the northwest of the island of Rügen lies the island of Hiddensee. This island was connected to Rügen in old times. Nobody knows anymore when they separated since it was so long ago, but there is still a tale of how the separation occurred. In this time of antiquity, there were two women who lived on the island of Rügen, of which one was devout and charitable, but the other was e...")
04:1804:18, 21 August 2025 The Holy Suederus (hist | edit) [2,117 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Werden (Merian).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] An equally ardent apostle to the Westphalians was Suederus. At one time, many heathen Westphalians had a feast near Soest, and Suederus traveled to their gathering. When the former talked about the might of their gods and the impotence of Christ who was pushed on them in exchange, Suederus bravely stepped forward, defended the Savior, and, in particular, told of the miracles that Christ the Lord worked t...")

19:1819:18, 20 August 2025 The Holy Lebuinus (hist | edit) [1,918 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Hilligenböke1.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] Lebuinus was a devout and ardent missionary to the heathen Westphalians and avoided no hardships and no dangers to work in his holy calling. For he had to suffer many persecutions from the low-born and the high-born alike, he never stopped walking on his path. Once he came close to the river Weser, in the area where the city of Herford now stands. At the time, a large number of Westphalians — priests, w...")
05:0105:01, 20 August 2025 A Historical Anecdote Of A Boy Who Was Lost At Stettin (hist | edit) [6,185 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Stettin um 1860.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] (Described by Lucas Mützell in Friedeborn Part II, p. 109ff) One Friday evening of the year 1576, a ten year old boy in Stettin by the name of Carsten Schöckell, whose parents lived in Kolberg, was lost and only returned the next Sunday evening. This boy had been staying with his mother’s sister, who was a washerwoman at the wharf as well as the housekeeper of Peter Malchow. When many distinguished...")

18:5118:51, 19 August 2025 The Three Mojes of Aislingen (hist | edit) [914 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Baumgarten St. Leonhard 223.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Whenever there is a fire in the village of Aislingen, it never burns more than the ridge of the roof and doesn’t spread further. This is thanks to the Three Mojes, three maidens who once crawled on all fours along a circle around the village. To honor their memory, a stone was erected with a relief depicting the three maidens, and every Saturday prayers are dedicated to them in the local ch...")
18:3318:33, 19 August 2025 The Cursed Mansion (hist | edit) [2,452 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Rosskastanie vor dem Haus Ruhr (retuschiert).jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Near the Ruhr river, between Schwerte and Wandhofen where the Wandhofer Heide (“Wandhofen Heath”) is located now, there used to be a large, splendid mansion of whose earlier history nothing is known these days. The only thing that people still know is that its last owner loved splendor and vices so much that he made a pact with the Evil One so that he could pursue his cra...")
18:0018:00, 19 August 2025 The Three Maidens at Deisenhofen (hist | edit) [1,082 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Beim Bauernschmied aus Ost.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] A very long time ago, three maidens were frequently seen in the cellar of the Forsterbauer farmers. The farmer’s wife left cream in the cellar for churning butter, and they also spun flax and completed other domestic chores. However, since they were naked, one day the farmer’s wife decided to give them newly made shirts in order to reward them for their labors. Since that day they were nev...")
04:4304:43, 19 August 2025 The Curious Man (hist | edit) [2,832 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Wildemann.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The following legend was shared with me in Ischgl, the stately metropolis of the Paznaun valley. An inhabitant of the same village had often heard of the processions of the Night Folk and their beautiful music. Perhaps he did not believe such reports, or perhaps he was merely curious. But once, during a late evening hour, he positioned himself to the left of the road of which he heard that it was frequented b...")

18:0818:08, 18 August 2025 The Castle Hill at Wolfratshausen (hist | edit) [2,835 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Burgstelle Wolfratshausen.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There once stood a castle near Wolfratshausen inhabited by three maidens, but the castle has long since sunk into the ground. A treasure is hidden within it, and once, a brave man was able to take as much with him as he was able to carry. He first took the precaution of carrying an amulet dedicated to the Lord God and the Virgin Mary so that the Devil would not be able to harm him. Then, he ap...")
16:3816:38, 18 August 2025 The Club Dog (hist | edit) [1,763 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Schwerte-100812-16487-Ruhrlandmuseum-cor.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In many towns along the Ruhr river, as well as in other areas of Westphalia, people may chance upon a large dog, which is called the Knüppelruen (“Club Dog”) because of the large club it wears around its neck. However, the dog harms no one as long as no one bothers it. In the city of Schwerte, there is also a dog of this type who runs through all the streets from ten o’clo...")
16:2016:20, 18 August 2025 The Yellow Dog (hist | edit) [1,589 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Schloss Neuhausen 5.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Each night between eleven and twelve o’clock, a small, yellow dog could be seen on the road between Sergen and Gablenz. This dog barked at passers by, but otherwise did not harm anyone. Once, the local forester also walked along this road at night, accompanied by his own dog. The forester had never heard of this particular dog before, but then he spotted it nearby. The dog struck him as peculiar; h...")
14:1014:10, 18 August 2025 The "Lordly Dog" (hist | edit) [2,005 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:ChurchBackemoor.JPG}}|right|362px|caption]] There used to be a chapel close to Breinermoor. The chieftains of Backemoor were the patrons of this chapel and in it they listened to sermons and submitted to the rite of confession. However, at one time, one of those patrons was such an arrogant, brazen man that the priest was not able to do anything that gained his approval and constantly suffered from his abuse. Usually, the noble brought his favorit...")
07:3607:36, 18 August 2025 The Welthund near Stötterlingenburg and Lüttgenrode (hist | edit) [2,771 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kalte Tüte 32 (Lüttgenrode) P1150024.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The village of Lüttgenrode is located about half an hour to the west of Osterwieck. It was built around a hill which is the site of the former convent Stötterlingenburg. There used to be a major forestry office next to the convent, in a building on the northern side of the hill. The house where this office was located is still standing, and its appearance shows the great prosperi...")
05:1705:17, 18 August 2025 The Black Poodle in the Haslen Forest (hist | edit) [1,009 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:D-BW-Überlingen - Hödinger Tobel.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The Haslen Forest near Hödingen, where a number of Alemannic graves can be found, is haunted by a spirit. This spirit appears in the form of a black poodle and leads people astray. Whoever enters the forest in the evening will not be able to escape it all night, for they will always follow the poodle who jumps back and forth before them. Only when the day breaks will the wanderer find...")
04:4604:46, 18 August 2025 Ghosts in the Shape of a Dog (hist | edit) [3,268 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Mühlbach, 1, Markoldendorf, Dassel, Landkreis Northeim.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] 1. At night, a large black dog roams the area near the river Ilme at Oldendorf. This dog has glowing eyes that are as large as cymbals. The locals call him the “Fischhund” (“Fishing Dog”). This used to be a fisherman who, as he was lying on his deathbed, wished to fish forever after his death. Once, a man from Oldendorf wanted to walk to Holtensen at night...")

19:4019:40, 17 August 2025 The Devil Summoning (hist | edit) [2,761 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:1288-Stiegenwahl.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the small hamlet of Obermahren (near Kappl), several men who were sitting together during the home garden agreed to summon the Devil so that he would appear and bring them money. For this purpose, they drew a large circle on the floor of the chamber, sat down in its outer periphery, and shouted with loud voices: “Devil, bring us one hundred thousand local coins!” Then suddenly, a gargantuan “w...")
15:4915:49, 17 August 2025 The Kings of the Wends Today (hist | edit) [2,878 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Kahnfahrt durch Hochwald 20170618 134811.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] It is an old legend that the Wends in the Lower Lusatia still have their king among them to this very day, whom they choose jointly out of their midst, give him crown and scepter, and collect a yearly poll tax to support him. They pay him homage with all honors due to a king and obey his commands in all concerns that affect their people as a whole. However, they keep this matter...")
15:2615:26, 17 August 2025 The Forging of the Emergency Hook (hist | edit) [1,399 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Hardtknippen.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, an old man lived in Herkenrath near Bensberg who wanted to craft a Nothaken (“emergency hook”). This was an S-shaped, crooked hook, which the carters used to utilize in order to temporarily fix torn chains. If such a hook was hung beneath the cart, it was possible to transport the heaviest of loads. But this hook needed to be smithed from a piece of iron which someone used to hang themselves. Whil...")
15:1015:10, 17 August 2025 The Golden Bowling Game (Schauenforst) (hist | edit) [2,332 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Schauenforst 2014-10-31 01.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Long years ago, a brazen and godless knight lived in the Schauenforst Castle who oppressed and plagued the farmers, held up and robbed travelers and wanderers, and who was feared widely in the surrounding areas. At one time, there had been a hard, long winter, and the sheer amount of snow that suddenly melted afterwards caused rivers and streams to burst their banks. In this manner, the terri...")
14:4814:48, 17 August 2025 The Ghostly Wedding in the Deserted Village of Scortowe (hist | edit) [6,213 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Merian eisenberg 1650 wikipedia.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Once, there was an ancient village of the Wends in the Schortental valley near Eisenberg, but this was a long, long time ago. This village was named “Scortowe”. Many years ago, this village was abandoned and now nothing of it is visible any more. However, in earlier times it was frequently seen during certain blessed nights and during the right hour — in the middle of the Schortenta...")
14:3114:31, 17 August 2025 The Accursed Fiddler (hist | edit) [1,392 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Bröns 01.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the parish of Bröns, two miles to the south of Ripen, several girls and young people had gathered on a Sunday evening and had a strong desire to dance. But there was no fiddler present, and nobody had an idea about where they could get one. Upset, one of them finally said: “I shall fetch a musician somehow, even if it is the Devil himself,” and then he went out to try his luck. As soon as he was out,...")
14:1614:16, 17 August 2025 The Banished Devil (hist | edit) [2,226 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Rundfunksender Langenberg3.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] (Oral tale from Langenberg.) Once, an old man and his wife lived on an estate near Langenberg. He owned a loom for weaving linen cloth, and made his grandchildren work on it — a young man in particular. Every time the old one returned home, he berated and cursed the children for not working diligently enough for his liking. Once he even wished that Satan would fetch them all. A few days la...")
13:3813:38, 17 August 2025 The Raging Army and the Faithful Eckhart (hist | edit) [6,097 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Eisleben, Luthers Geburtstert LCCN2003671431.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The legend of the Raging or Angry Army and the Raging or Wild Hunt is known widely. It is tied to Wuotan, the highest of the old Germanic gods. And it derives its name from him, as the still commonly used word “Wuth” (“Rage, Anger”) indicates without a doubt and is derived from him in turn. The Raging Army is thought of as an army of the dead — as an unhallowed proc...")
12:5312:53, 17 August 2025 The Bandits of the Eckernkrug Tavern in the Schimmerwald Forest (hist | edit) [3,966 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Gasthaus Eckerkrug u. Kuranstalt Jungborn im Eckertal, Rud. Lohse, Halberstadt, 1930.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] The Schimmerwald forest between Harzburg and Ilsenburg was infamous for the bandits who dwelled within it. An old woman who lived at the Zellbach in Clausthal, and whose daughter was ancient but still alive in this city in the year 1850 (according to an old woman from Lerbach) once was caught by surprise by the night within the Schimmer...")

04:5404:54, 16 August 2025 The Kirnberg at Berchtesgaden (hist | edit) [979 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Berchtesgaden - Postcard.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] There are three rock pinnacles called the “Drei Jungfrauen” (“Three Maidens”) on the Kirnberg mountain near Berchtesgaden. Once, these three maidens braided each others’ hair when the church bells called for the rite of Eucharist. Upon hearing this, they did not bother to make the sign of the cross, and one of them said: “Eucharist? Who cares!” For this blasphemy, all three of them...")

19:2619:26, 15 August 2025 Toads and Folk Belief in Tyrol (hist | edit) [6,476 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Sankt Oswald (Seefeld in Tirol) v NO.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] ''Note: Just as the larger, excellent collection'' “Tirols volksdichtungen und volksgebräuche, gesammelt durch die brüder Ignaz und Josef Zingerle” ''(1. bd. kinder- und hausmärchen. Innsbruck 1852) has done, so may this report and others of dear Tyrolean friends show what we should think of the judgment of Steub, who spoke in'' “drei sommer in Tirol” ''on p. 645 of the...")
15:4615:46, 15 August 2025 The Barber of Penzlin (hist | edit) [8,537 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Penzlin2013-1.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] More than eighty years ago, a field medic named Andres lived in my old house. This man must have committed a very serious sin in his life, for he found no rest in his grave. Soon after he was buried, people started saying “Andres is haunting [this place]”. In particular, he caused lots of trouble in his former residence by pranking the inhabitants in the evenings and at night, frightening them with lou...")
13:1313:13, 15 August 2025 Riding the Walrider (hist | edit) [2,855 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Holzhausen Schafkoben.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] In the parish of Wildeshausen, there were two farmhands serving a farmer who slept in a single bed. The senior farmhand, who slept at the front of the bed, became very skinny even though he was otherwise healthy. Thus, the other one asked him why he became so skinny, for “you are not ill, as you eat as much as I do”. The senior farmhand answered: “If you experienced the same thing as I did, y...")
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...")

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