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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...")

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...")

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...")

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...")

07:1407:14, 8 September 2025 Sandbox3 (hist | edit) [148 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{#show:A Historical Anecdote Of A Boy Who Was Lost At Stettin | format=map | layer=CyclOSM | cluster=yes | clustermaxradius=10 | ?Coordinates | ?Tale image | template=Map Popup | showtitle=off | hidenamespace=on | limit = 1000 }}")
05:0305:03, 8 September 2025 Doctor Faust and the Nitz (hist | edit) [1,295 bytes] Jürgen Hubert (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[[File:{{#setmainimage:Holnis msu 2018 -6892.jpg}}|right|362px|caption]] Doctor Faust once had the Nitz in his service. With him, he traveled over the ocean along the coasts within a box made out of glass in order to observe all depths and shallows. He noted everything he saw through his glass box down on paper for the nautical charts, and the charts which the captains and helmsmen use and on which everything is mapped out originated with him. When they reached the ferr...")

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_...")

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...")

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...")

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