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4 unusual facts about Holle


Gefjon

Davidson states that in Germanic areas of Europe, traditions also exist of supernatural women who travel about the countryside with a plough, examples including Holde and Holle (from the western and central regions of Germany) and Berchte and Perchte in traditions from upper Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Holle

Holle is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Salzgitter Hills

Holle – a few kilometres west of the western end of the northwest section (Landkreis Hildesheim)

Sauberge

A few kilometres east-northeast lies Holle and some distance away to the south-east is Bockenem; a few individual districts of these town boroughs reach as far as the ridge.


Bundesstraße 446

The section between the Holzerode and Ebergötzen is known as the Hölle ("hell") by the locals because of the high rock outcrops immediately to the side of the road and dense stands of trees (e.g. "You drive through the Hölle.").

Frijjō

Various female figures in medieval folklore have been traced to Frigg-Frija: the Saxon Fru Freke, Gode, Perchta (Bertha), Holda (Holle).

Mother Hulda

names Hulda (or Holda, Holla, Holle) as having originally been an ancient Germanic supreme goddess who predates most of the Germanic pantheon, including deities such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and Loki, continuing traditions of pre-Indo-European Neolithic Europe.

Sadomania

Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.

Treaty of Bärwalde

Hans-Christian Huf - Mit Gottes Segen in die Hölle: Der Dreissigjährige Krieg, Econ 2003


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