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German and Germanic literary, legendary, and religious-cultural inheritance, beginning here with heroic legend, Rhine story, and Nibelung reception.
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Alpine and Tyrolean Folklore2 pages
Folk tales and local legends of the Tyrol and the German-speaking Alps, gathered and retold in English in the nineteenth century: dwarfs and giants, fairies, witches, mountain spirits, wandering souls, saints and sunken castles.
Drama and Philosophical Literature1 page
German-language drama, poetry, and philosophical literature, beginning here with Goethe's Faust in Bayard Taylor's English verse translation.
Folk Belief and Witch Lore2 pages
German folk belief and witch lore in older German studies and treatises: the spirits of the mines, the witches of the Brocken, translated from the German.