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6 unusual facts about German folklore


165 Loreley

165 Loreley is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 9, 1876, in Clinton, New York and named after the Lorelei, a figure in German folklore.

Bernhard Baader

Bernhard Baader (ca. 1801 – 1859) was a collector of German folklore in the former Baden, now part of Baden-Württemberg.

German folklore

Documentation and preservation of folklore in the states that formally united as Germany in 1871 was initially fostered in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Folklore studies, Volkskunde, were co-opted as a political tool, to seek out traditional customs to support the idea of historical continuity with a Germanic culture.

German legend

The term German legend usually refers to literary fiction of the Middle High German period, which is interconnected both with prehistoric Continental Germanic mythology and with modern German folklore.

King Goldemar

King Goldemar (also spelled Goldmar, Vollmar, and Volmar) is a dwarf or kobold from Germanic mythology and folklore.


Hell Mary Hill

This tradition is curiously coincident with the German superstition of treasure buried within the Hartz mountains, guarded, and ever disappointing the cupidity of those who would discover and possess themselves of it.

Quest for Glory

Countries and continents explored in the Games are Spielburg (Game 1; German folklore), Shapeir (Game 2; Arabia of One Thousand and One Nights), Tarna (Game 3; African mythology, esp. Egypt), Mordavia (Game 4; Slavic mythology) and Silmaria (Game 5; Greek mythology).

The Eulenspiegel Society

The TES website states that its name is based on takes its name from Till Eulenspiegel, a character described as a "foolish yet clever lad" in medieval German folklore.


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Museum Europäischer Kulturen

The private Museum for German Traditional Costume and Handicrafts, with the support of the Patron James Simon (1851-1932, from 1904 President of the Museum’s Association) and under the leadership of Karl Brunner (1904-1928), was in 1904 made part of the “Königliche Sammlung für Deutsche Volkskunde” (Royal Collection for German Folklore), part of the Königlich Preußischen Museen zu Berlin.

Peter Klaus

"Peter Klaus" is a German folk tale.