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5 days agoI’ve covered a few of these tales in my translations.
Long-time role-player. Translator of old German folk tales.
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I’ve covered a few of these tales in my translations.


I suspect that there is quite a lot of overlap with kobolds and household spirits in German folklore.
I suspect that there are quite a few of these in German folklore. I have collected more than a hundred German folk tales of saints and holy people over the last few years, but I haven’t cross-referenced these with the list of canonical saints yet.
I’ve covered a few tales of the Holle/Hulda/Perchta myth-complex in my translations.
(I see these three as fundamentally the same entity, even if there are major regional variations.)