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Till Eulenspiegel is the great trickster of Low German tradition, a peasant prankster from Brunswick whose exploits were collected and […]

The Faust legend is one of the most important in Western culture and one of the most frequently reduced to

Der Schwarze Mann, the Black Man, is one of the most widely invoked child-threatening figures in German folklore and one

The Heinzelmännchen are the household spirits of Cologne, small supernatural beings who performed all the city’s domestic and craft labour

The Lorelei is a siren figure associated with a specific rock on the Rhine river near St Goarshausen in Germany,

The Nachtkrapp is a creature from German and Swiss folklore whose function is entirely disciplinary and whose method is entirely

The Wolpertinger is a creature from Bavarian folklore that combines the body parts of multiple animals into a single impossible

The Kobold is the German household spirit, a small supernatural being who attaches himself to a home or a mine

The Nixe is the German water spirit, a shape-shifting supernatural being who inhabits rivers, lakes, and millponds across the German-speaking

The Erlking is a supernatural figure from German and Danish folklore whose defining characteristic is the calling of children to