The German folk legend of the devil

What kind of demons are those that appear in German folklore? The term Albtraum/Alptraum is also derived from this.

The nightmare may have been marred by witches, who were turned into straw and drifted into their rooms from passages such as the keyholes, crushing them on humans and animals, causing them to experience nightmares and suffocation.

Horror can also steal cows and maternal milk.

The baby, the baby, the Wechselbalg, means the transmutation left by the elves who stole the human child, sometimes a monster's child, sometimes an old leprechaun (to get milk every day for free).

Different demons and elves are likely to switch to babys.

The devil may eat stolen human babies, and elves and midgets may be good to the baby and may even teach him some practical skills that he can use when he returns to human society.

In general, a period of up to six months during which a baby is vulnerable to being removed, parents have to prepare a talisman or something, and when the child is baptized, there is generally no risk of being removed.

The elves here refer to elf and faery in English or elfe and Fee in German.

In English, elf is often a better fairy, and in German, Elfe and Alb are the same word and the meaning is more complex.

It may be a beautiful fairy such as Nymph and Nixe in the forest, or an old witch in Hauff's fairy tale.

The elves love to dance, and they lure young men through the road, grinding hard bubbles, and leave them to dance with them until they are exhausted.

If a man does not want to dance, the elves give him a deadly punch.

Folklorics believe that dancing elves are actually made of brides who die before they marry, and that they cannot bear the loneliness in their graves.

The jinn prefer the old tree, especially the oak.

The tree elves attached to the trees die as the trees fall or die.

There were rumours that a stubborn, stupid man had caught a tree in the forest and tried to cut it down to build a house, when a beautiful woman appeared, asking him not to do it, but the man died, and the tree fell, bleeding from its trunk, and the former woman died.

Under a lot of ancient trees, there's a circle of fungi-induced areas, Feenring.

Folk legends say that inside the circle is the floor of the elves, and mortals are forbidden to enter.

The mountain genie Rübezahl literally means: Counting radish is the legend of a mountain demon in Germany.

That's how his name came.

The mountain demon once brought a princess home to make her marry.

Of course the princess wouldn't like itLa-la.

And the mountain demons grow many magic carrots, and they listen to people, and they become all kinds of things, and he makes the princess happy with them.

The princess said to him, "If you count how many carrots you have, I'll come from you and I'll go if it's not right." So the mountain demons numbered the radishes over and over, fearing that they would go astray.

When he counted the radish, the princess fled on the radish horse.

Since then, everyone has laughed at him as "Rübezahl".

He's been mad at him so far, so he can't call him that in front of his face.

Rübezahl is friendly, and at times vicious and vicious, and Freiligrath has a poem about a poor boy who wants to find Rübezahl to help his family out of its misery.

The German language may be associated with water elves: Wasserfrau, Melusine, Wasserfee, Undine, Meerjungfrau, Nixe, Sirene, etc.

These concepts are difficult to distinguish clearly.

In general, the concept of Wasserfrau is more focused on kindness and love, Meerjungfrau is more focused on the need for salvation (no soul, exile, etc., such as the daughter of the Sea of Andersen), Nixe is difficult to distinguish from Elfe and Fee, Sirene is often tempting, and Undine's image is immortalized by the same name novel of Fouque.

A German story about Nixe: there's always three beautiful girls in a lasagna in a small town by the lake, and they get along very well with the other young men and women in town.

But every night they leave at 11 o'clock on time.

They can't stay.

The children of the village's pedagogues were fascinated by them, and one night he had the clocks of the swaggering house reduced by an hour in order to get along with them.

Three girls did not find the trick, so they did not leave until the clock showed 11 o'clock (in fact 12 o'clock).

The following morning, silent cries were heard by the lake, where there were three waves of blood.

Three girls never showed up again and the son of the teacher died of depression.

The hooks are made by German parents who scare children, and they use hooks to hook children who can't swim.

Note: The hook alone can't swim.

They collect the souls of the children and hide them under the jars of water.

So if you don't want to be taken away by hooks, you have to either stay away from the water or learn to swim.

In fact, most folklore is the result of certain desires and emotions, and many of those demons were born.

They are either good or ugly or good or evil, a reflection of one aspect of humanity。