Posted on 04/16/2015 5:55:19 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
There’s a real morbid streak in German folklore. Even the Scandinavians don’t have it as badly (and you’d think what with long winters and trolls that look like pretty ladies . . . )
If you look at German history during the Thirty Years War (1618-48), you’ll understand why.
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I made a mistake, though, this beautiful Jack Scott song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UouAcaM0—U
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Must be something in the German temperament - a fatalism combined with unhealthy interest in the supernatural. It's in Grimm's Tales as well (the ones that never get published in the collections for children - but my kids loved them. They wanted the story about the naughty child who wouldn't lie quiet in his grave OVER and OVER again. Their dad is more German than I am, but there's some on our side.)
I think it's more prevalent in the North than in the South - the Bavarians I find much easier to understand.
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