A Fairy Tale from Latvia: The Old Hag is Coming: Five Days of Fairy Tales: Day 2 Once a harp player met the devil on one of his sojourns...

Grimm’s Saga No. 258: The Wandering Hunter Now it happened that a forest-keeper was responsible for an enormous amount of timber and had...

From Switzerland: the Wild Tuerst and Straeggele of Christmas Tide In ancient times a beautiful daughter of a rich man lived in the...

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...