To help you navigate the various Christmas links on this blog, sort through the many different Christmas themes and perhaps provide imp...

Grimm’s Fairy Tale No. 39: The Elves of Christmas (or: Die Wichtelmaenner ) Through no fault of his own, a shoemaker had slipped in...

Grimm’s Saga No. 252: The Witch's Sabbath A woman from Hembach took her son Johannes, who was barely 16 years old, to the witch...

Fairy Tale for Halloween: The Assembly of the Dead The queen had died. She lay in her castle in a splendid bed in the mourning hal...

The Skull in the Bone House It was evening in the house of Constable Wyler who lived in the Swiss Valley of Loetschen. Women a...

From Cologne : The Tale of Richmodis von Aducht In the mid-fifteenth century plague spread through the city of Cologne. In its s...

Grimm’s Saga No. 298: The Three Tells The Three Tells According to common folk and shepherds of Switzerland there is a cleft ...

Grimm’s Saga No. 518: Wilhelm Tell Now it happened that the Kaiser’s bailiff named Grissler rode out to Uri . And when he had l...

The Quiet Folk of Plesse   There are many springs, wells, ravines and caves near the Hessian mountain castle Plesse , where, accor...

Grimm’s Saga No. 248: The Saga of the Little Mouse  The following story purportedly took place at the estate of a noble family at the begi...

Thor Visits the Giant Hymir King Utgard Loke once foiled Thor’s plans. Angered by the king’s actions, Thor decided to take reven...