KHAI plays Grimm

Three pious miners are trapped in a mine for seven years until their final wishes are granted.

The mountain spirit Meister Hämmerling appears in various forms in the silver mines to punish or reward miners.

Two miners are saved from darkness and helped by a giant monk, until their drunken boast makes the magic oil vanish.

The pond on Hoher Meißner acts as the gateway to Mother Holle's underworld castle where she rewards the industrious.

During the twelve nights of Christmas, Mother Holle wanders to reward industrious spinners and punish the lazy.

At noon, Mother Holle bathes in her sacred pool on Hoher Meißner, demanding respect from all who pass by.

The legend of Frau Holla passing through Schwarza accompanied by the faithful Eckart who warns travelers.

Frau Holla rewards a helpful peasant who repairs her carriage wheel with wood shavings that turn into pure gold.

A shepherd uses a magical spring-root to open the locked doors inside the Köterberg and gather treasures.

Three noble maidens on the Boyneburg await a predicted death by lightning, showing submission to God's will.

A beautiful banished virgin appears at noon on the Pielberg, warning people to stay away.

A maiden carrying a large keyring appears at noon on the Schlossberg, bathing in the fountain before returning.

Leonhard enters a subterranean vault where a half-snake maiden promises treasures, but he flees in terror.

Two noblemen find a child in a bush that cannot be lifted, which prophesies a fruitful but deadly year.

Christoph finds a wine cellar guarded by three old men, but after revealing the secret, he is killed.

Giants playing on the Brunsberg throw a ball into the valley, forming the Knäuelwiese before their demise.

A giant's daughter takes a ploughing peasant as a toy, but her father teaches her to respect the humans who feed them.

The giant warrior Einheer wades through rivers, pulls his horse by the tail, and fights like an entire army.

Nine stone pillars in the forest near Miltenberg bear the handprints of giants who tried to build a bridge.

A shepherd finds the entrance to gold inside the Köterberg but is chased away by a bloody man.

Ancient German heroes rest inside Castle Geroldseck, waiting to emerge and save their people in times of need.

Kaiser Karl sits in the deep well of Nuremberg Castle, his beard grown through a stone table.

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa sleeps inside the Kyffhäuser, awaiting the day the ravens stop flying to return.

A dry pear tree on the Walserfeld predicts a terrible final battle when it greens and bears fruit.

Workers find an enchanted king and a maiden in Castle Schildheiß who turns into a fire-breathing snake.

Before a war, the Odenberg opens and Kaiser Karl emerges with his army, sounding his horn.

The Untersberg near Salzburg contains palaces, churches, and treasures guarded by small midnight-walking dwarfs.

Kaiser Karl sits in the Untersberg with a golden crown, his beard growing around the table until the end of the world.

Knight Wilhelm von Scherfenberg receives a protective ring from a dwarf king, but dies on the battlefield.

Helpful dwarfs called the silent people live in Castle Plesse, punishing human offenses through their cattle.

Dwarfs slip into Eilenburg Castle at night to celebrate a wedding, inviting the old Count to join.

In a valley near Elnbogen, helpful dwarfs are turned to stone by their angry ruler when they go to a wedding.

Near Aachen, Jena, and Hohenstein, dwarfs borrow kitchen utensils from humans for their weddings and return them.

A dwarf woman borrows fresh bread from a farmer, returning a warm loaf, but warns that human sins drive them away.

A dwarf asks the Count of Hoia to host a nightly feast in his castle, rewarding him with a sword and a ring.

The noise of hammers and stamp mills in the Ore Mountains drives the dwarfs away, though they promise to return.

Tiny dwarfs dressed as miners haunt the pits, teasing workers and knocking three times as an omen of death.

Paul Creuz conjures dwarfs using milk, honey, and a black hen, eventually calling their King for a book of wisdom.

A dwarf from the Wunderberg joins a wedding in Glaß, dances with the maidens, and demands honorable behavior.

A cellar dwarf in Lützen prays alongside a maid; later, a fire destroys the town but spares his house.

A dwarf leads the grandmother of Rantzau to help a Zwergin give birth, rewarding her with gold under strict warnings.

After Hermann von Rosenberg's feast, earth spirits request to hold their own wedding in his hall, promising peace.

Osenberg dwarfs pay for beer with silver; a forgotten jug brings luck to the family until it breaks.

A shepherd boy frees a dwarf trapped in a stone; the dwarf moves into a neighbor's house, refusing to leave.

A wet dwarf seeks shelter in a storm; only a poor pious couple takes him in, saving them from a devastating landslide.

A rider meets two children laughing in the Zeitelmoos forest; they reappear ahead of him, laughing mockingly.

A woodcutter Hans Krepel refuses a moss woman's plea to carve crosses in the last tree stump, triggering her wrath.

The Moss People dress in green moss to hide from the Wild Hunt that storms through the forests of Saalfeld.

A midwife is summoned to help the Water Sprite's wife; she is warned to accept only modest pay or face death.

Wild women emerge from the Untersberg to feed shepherd children and assist with the harvest before returning.

A water sprite with an icy hand dances with Ursula at a festival in Laibach, eventually dragging her into the river.

A friendly water sprite invites his neighboring farmer to visit his home beneath the lake.

A butcher cuts the finger of a water sprite who always pays for meat with holed coins, causing him to vanish.

A boastful baker's apprentice bets he can swim across the Elbe three times, only to be dragged down by a Nix.

Fishermen on Rügen find their boat placed high in a tree by a hidden water spirit named Brother Nickel.

Nixes appear at the Nix Well near Kirchhain, and another nix is sighted at the Elisabeth mill in Marburg.

A nix drags a skilled swimmer into the depths of the Elbe and later thwarts the construction of a water pipe.

Two nixes flee a village festival after a youth steals their gloves, causing the lake to turn blood-red.

Throwing stones into the bottomless Mummelsee triggers severe storms until water sprites return the stones.

Nixes disguised as clean town girls shop at meat markets, recognizable only by a wet corner of their aprons.

A river claims its annual human sacrifice at Leipzig, while nixes dance on the water before a drowning.

A grieving mother collects her drowned child's bones from the lake; when placed on the altar, the child revives.

A malicious water spirit named Slit-Ears lurks in the river Streu to drag crossing travelers to their deaths.

An apprentice shoots at a nix combing her hair on the river; three days later, he drowns while bathing.

A midwife helping a nix-wife give birth under the Saale river uses protective herbs to escape the nix's power.

A barber shines a light on a nix's legs at midnight, exposing the water spirit and forcing it to vanish.

A maid serves a nix under the river for three years, leaving because the food is always completely unsalted.

A noblewoman assists a nix-wife giving birth inside a mountain, receiving a golden ring that seals her lineage's fate.

A noblewoman helping a nix-wife under the river refuses ashes, earning three gold pieces that sustain her house.

A lady in childbed allows earthmen to celebrate a wedding in her room, hosting an invisible festive assembly.

A dying count divides his lands and leaves three magical fairy gifts to his daughters to secure their fortunes.

A helpful kobold assists a household with various chores, bringing fortune as long as he is treated well.

A peasant tries to burn down his barn to escape a kobold, only to find the spirit riding along on his cart.

Two students shelter in a mill where one eats the food set out for the house spirit, earning a midnight thrashing.

A house spirit wearing a small felt hat serves the bishop of Hildesheim, but takes bloody revenge when mocked.

The house spirit Hinzelmann haunts Castle Hudemühlen, keeping house, speaking to guests, and giving warnings.

A helpful household spirit in Flügelau Castle flees in a trail of fire when forced to reveal his true form.

A wounded castle spirit in Calenberg wears a large boot on one leg, fearing it might be torn off.

A roadway spirit near Elten plagues travelers, remaining invisible except for a single human hand.

A ghostly nun hiding in the swamp near Kendenich leaps onto the backs of travelers and rides them all night.

The nightmare spirit slips through tiny cracks to press on sleepers' chests, fleeing only if one moves a thumb.

A mother discovers her crying, insatiable child is a changeling when a voice from a bridge calls out to it.

A peasant carrying an insatiable changeling in a basket throws it in the river when the creature speaks.

A mandrake root, grown under a gallows, is dug up using a black dog to avoid its fatal shriek, bringing wealth.

A soldier owns a spirit in a bottle that brings wealth, but he must sell it cheaper to avoid damnation.

A magical bird's nest is invisible to the eye but visible in water, granting invisibility to its holder.

A person gets a breeding penny from the devil on Christmas Eve, which later burns down a house in Pantschdorf.

A mother beats a changeling on a Breslau meadow to force the devil to return her real child.

A Leipzig father watches his newborn child at night to prevent an unseen force from turning its cradle.

A nursing mother is forced to bind sheaves in the field; the Roggen-Mutter swaps her child but returns it later.

Two underground women swap a sleeping newborn, but a quick-witted maid saves the child by a clever counter-swap.

A princess saves her besieged father by carrying him out on a donkey, disguised by green branches.

A rich shepherd constructs a staircase of cheese and is cursed by his mother, burying the alp under ice.

A nobleman cuts off a servant's head at a banquet but cannot put it back until he kills a hidden disruptor.

A widower’s wife returns from the grave to be his housewife, on the condition that he must never curse again.

A loyal dog sent to a butcher with a sausage request on a fast day has its tail chopped off in retaliation.

A proud village mocking a praying woman is buried in sand by oxen digging and a violent storm.

An innocent mine manager cursed a rich mine upon his execution, turning his blood into milk.

A heavily indebted miner discovers a rich ore deposit just as he is about to flee, restoring his wealth.

An outstanding horse trainer is recognized as a dead soldier, leaves in a jester's outfit, and tricks a groom.

A peasant swears a false oath to claim land, only for the earth to open and swallow him up.

Twelve judges in Minden who pass an unjust verdict are punished by the earth swallowing them to their knees.

Three holy springs sprout on Rütli meadow after the Swiss oath, while a traitor burns from within.

A fountain dries up whenever a member of a noble Franconian house is dying, but the omen is cheated.

A spring in Halle near the Red Tower predicts cheap or dear times by the flow of its water.

Two lovers dig for forty years to bring a spring to Spangenberg, dying in each other's arms as it succeeds.

A mountain door opens in 1614 for a Marschendorf maid, showing a mystical hall of zeching lords.

A treasure in Rauheneck can only be lifted by a child whose cradle is carved from a tree growing on the tower wall.

A speaking bird warns a Germanic princess of Roman soldiers marching through the valley with gleaming armor.

Beneath a Harz castle, stones taken from a cave always return, while sounds of bells and blacksmiths echo.

The river Fulda ceases its flow as a sign of mourning whenever a member of the princely house of Hesse is about to die.

A castle sinks to form a deep lake, leaving only Arend and his wife to survive after her historic warning cry.

A noblewoman warned in a dream flees a sinking castle on an ox, watching the ruins sink to form a lake.

Ghostly lights hover over a sunken village in the Red Moor, while a stone bridge remains in the Black Moor.

A girl summons her future husband with dinner on Saint Andrew's Eve, but he suffers pain from the magical compulsion.

A woman uses Christmas magic with bread and crossed knives to summon her lover, causing her to flee in terror.

A maid puts a bread crust under her arm by day and under her head by night to dream of her future lover.

A girl uses a Christmas shirt magic ritual to see her future husband, but a group of girls confuses the spirits.

A girl uses crystal gazing to discover her future husband, with Johann Rüst witnessing the magical vision.

A maid cooks magic herbs on Pentecost, forcing a devil in goat form to carry her lover back on its horns.

A witch uses magic to pursue a fleeing salt journeyman, sending a black goat to slip between his legs.

A cruel housekeeper haunts Frekenhorst abbey until priests banish her ghost to the Davert forest.

A white lady combs horses in a stable but is blind inside her dwelling and sees clearly only outside.

Duke Heinrich of Breslau follows a dove in Krakow cathedral and finds a hidden treasure under the floorboards.

A dove prevents a banneret from firing a cannon during a siege, saving the city of Hoxter until Swedish forces arrive.

A bell founder kills his apprentice for opening the tap early, only to find the bell is perfect before his execution.

A mother hides a black painted gold plate under a bench until a bell founder discovers and melts it into a new bell.

A miller's wife traps one robber in a chamber and kills another in the waterwheel while her husband is away at church.

The one-eyed robber Johann Huebner terrorizes a Westphalian forest from his castle until he is killed in battle.

The robber knight Eppela Gaila Gailingen uses his magical horse to escape from the Nuremberg forces.

A brave village girl wins a midnight bet at a ruined castle and accidentally retrieves a robber's stolen treasure.

The wicked lifestyle of Count Isang causes his castle to sink, creating the Seeburger lake near Goettingen.

Priests on the island of Ruegen sacrifice young women to the devil by drowning them in the dark Burgsee.

A thief challenges Saint Nicholas to a race for the offering box but gets carried away by the devil after his death.

Giant stones with handprints are found near Leipzig and Salzwedel, where a commander once split a rock with his sword.

A retreating commander sits on a stone in Geismarwald and leaves hand and leg imprints as a sign of future victory.

A wicked giant who mistreated his mother is buried by a storm, leaving his finger protruding as the Fuchsturm tower.

Giants descend from the Untersberg mountain to warn Feldkirchen villagers to live a righteous life.

The famous prophetess Jetta predicts the future from her chapel on the hill where Heidelberg Castle stands today.

The giant Haym slays a dragon in the Inntal valley, builds Wilten Abbey, and erects the bridge at Innsbruck.

A giant pagan maiden's rib drips once a year in Oberburg church, with the final drop signaling Judgment Day.

A pure country girl leaps across the Mur river from a mountain to escape a wicked pursuer, naming the cliff.

A shepherd's baptized lamb turns into a terrifying specter that is eventually defeated by a giant milk-fed bull.

A man discovers a hidden cave inside Zottenberg mountain where three silent old robbers await Judgment Day.

An old gray-haired man with a youthful face warns the soldiers of Magdeburg of their impending defeat in battle.

A rope-maker kicks a boy's game board and is forced by the boy's father to carry him, dying ten days later.

A hunter is led into a subterranean cave by a spirit and witnesses the silent souls of former castle lords.

Helpful dwarves who sit on a maple branch during haymaking are betrayed when locals saw it through at night.

Dwarves who watch haymakers from a boulder are cruelly burned when pranksters heat the stone red-hot.

A shepherd scatters ash to discover the dwarves have goose feet, and his mockery drives them away forever.

German villagers in Veneto appease the Wild Man and Forest Woman with burnt hair and read spirit footprints in ash.

A berry-picking woman enters the dwarf-prince Heiling's cave and awakens a century later to find her world gone.

Dwarves forced to leave their Harz caves agree to cross a bridge in secret while paying a silent wealth tax.

A baker catches invisible dwarves stealing bread, forcing their population to emigrate and leave a pot of coins.

Helpful dwarves of Dardesheim borrow wedding dishes to locals until human mockery forces them to emigrate forever.

A smith accidentally cracks a dwarf's skull with a threshing flail after guarding his pea field against theft.

A legendary subterranean smith kills a farmer's horse after the farmer refuses to pay him for borrowing a spit.

Two shepherd boys find a hoard of coins inside a mountain cave but barely escape a magically closing stone door.

A lazy boy following a mysterious nut-cracking lady discovers an underground cellar filled with barrels of gold.

A girl follows a goat into a ruin where a maiden gives her cherries that instantly turn into valuable coins.

A poor girl meeting a white-dressed man in the forest receives a basket of silver coins gushing from a hill.

Men discover gold sand on the Untersberg mountain but face warnings and a fleeting door into another world.

An herb gatherer on the Untersberg mountain finds gold-rich gray coals but can never rediscover the stone wall.

Conspirators murder Abbot Berold of Fulda, leading to their execution and a barren patch of grass near Steinau.

Five ancient stone crosses standing outside the Klaus Gate in Höxter recall legends of giants and hung citizens.

Peasants secretly arm themselves and trick robber knights by entering Weißenstein castle under the guise of a dance.

A linden tree court in Bingenheim features a stone table left by forest-dwelling giants who left handprints behind.

A giant black man straddling a lane in Hof predicts the coming of the plague before vanishing with a great crash.

Saxon soldiers capture a hairy wild woman who predicts peace, matching a wild man who foretold war years before.

The ghost of the Lord of Rodenstein noisily marches to Schnellerts castle when war looms and returns in silence.

Knight Tannhäuser leaves Rome in despair when Pope Urban declares his sins unforgiven unless a dry staff sprouts.

The ghost of Jägermeister Hackelberg hunts forever on the Solling mountain after refusing heaven for his passion.

A tailor in Münster mocks the wild hunter and gets knocked unconscious by a ghostly horse foot flying in.

A Thuringian mountain contains purgatory, prompting an English queen to build a chapel at its base to pray.

Hans von Rechenberg has a loyal servant who performs supernatural feats and is revealed to be a helpful spirit.

A woman wanders into a midnight mass of headless spirits who chase her and tear her coat into pieces.

A traveler in a haunted room witnesses a ghostly feast that vanishes upon prayer, leaving behind valuable silver.

A young roofer speaks irrationally from a tower top before falling to his death while his father prays for him.

A poor woman spins yarn diligently for years to earn enough money to build a stone shrine near Vienna.

Prussian peasants who mock a Deutschmeister are forced to eat a whole barrel of buttermilk inside a tower.

Saint Boniface stamps a foot imprint into the Christenberg and causes a dry wooden staff to sprout green leaves.

A tricked devil bursts out of a chapel on the Hülfenberg, leaving a hole in the gable that can never be closed.

A violent dispute in Goslar is incensed by the devil, leaving a hole in the church wall that requires a cat to seal.

A miller makes a pact with the devil to build a windmill, but a premature rooster crow causes its destruction.

Christ leaves footprint imprints in rock after banishing the devil to a ravine to weep tears for a thousand years.

A builder tricks the devil by driving a rooster across a newly completed bridge built under a soul contract.

Aachen citizens trick the devil by sending a wolf into the cathedral first, causing him to slam and split the door.

The devil is banished inside a large tower in the city wall of Aachen, where he makes noise until Judgment Day.

A premature rooster crow ruins a pact between God and the devil, who breaks his own wall in a furious rage.

The devil builds walls to divide the Earth with God and dances in celebration on a rocky plateau in the Harz.

The devil once preached to the local people from a row of rocks in Baden called the Devil's Pulpit.

A flat stone at the foot of Castle Bentheim contains the ear print of the devil who once slept upon it.

Satan tempts Christ from the Cößein rock but excludes two rough villages which remain the devil's own territory.

The devil tries to build a stone wall across the Danube, but the stones constantly slip out of his hands.

A frustrated blacksmith wishes the devil to finish an intricate baptismal grid, and the devil immediately does so.

The devil builds a Weser windmill and drives the wheel with a rocky stream, creating a local legend.

The devil steals building stones from a valley church project and piles them up on a Rhön mountain peak.

The devil builds a complex stone shelter in a single night to house local villagers during war times.

The devil attempts to destroy a chapel in Cologne by throwing a heavy stone but fails completely.

The devil carries a massive stone through the air by a chain and drops it near the city of Osnabrück.

The devil agrees to drop a rock next to the Halberstadt Dom in exchange for a promised wine house.

A shepherd leaps over a heap of coals placed by the devil on a narrow bridge after praying to the Virgin Mary.

The devil steals a golden bell and later drags an impious plowing farmer down into the bottomless Teufelsbad.

The devil throws the roof off the Schartfeld tower to expose a monk who abetted the emperor's adultery.

Cologne Cathedral remains unfinished after its proud builder loses a bet to the devil and leaps to his death.

The devil boasts of wearing a massive stone as a hat until Christ easily lifts it with a single finger.

The devil mockingly exposes the sins of local priests and burns down the town of Schiltach using a magic kettle.

The devil rides a cheating beer seller to a blacksmith who delays the shoeing until the morning cock crows.

A rich woman breaks her wedding vow to her poor lover and is carried off by the devil during her wedding dance.

Twelve soldiers spin on the devil's wheel of fortune where one is taken and the rest wake up empty-handed.

The devil disguised in a blue hat defends a cheated mercenary and carries off the swearing lying landlord.

A dreamer finds a treasure under a tree after a merchant on a bridge mocks dreams and tells him where to dig.

A rising kettle of gold sinks back under the stove when a girl cries out in surprise instead of keeping silent.

A logger transforms into a werewolf using a magic belt and devours a foal while his companion secretly watches.

A shepherd chases a mocking werewolf assistant who transforms into a thornbush before being struck down.

A leader with a wire whip drives a horde of shape-shifted werewolves across parted waters to raid Livonian herds.

A Swiss cooper survives the winter inside a deep pit with two dragons and escapes by holding onto a dragon's tail.

An exiled hero kills a devastating dragon using thorns but dies from the monster's toxic blood on his skin.

A knight defeats a well-guarding dragon but is killed when the monster's venomous tail stings his unarmored knee.

A count slays a giant dragon and retrieves his younger brother alive from the split belly of the monster.

A snake queen rewards a kind shepherd girl with a golden crown on her wedding day to bring her eternal wealth.

A cursed castle maiden appears as a ghost snake with a human head and key ring during the quarterly Ember days.

A proud cursed daughter appearing as a snake or toad must be kissed weekly on Nothweiler Castle to be redeemed.

A fearful shepherd boy thrice refuses to rescue a white meadow maiden who is cursed to wait for a cherrywood cradle.

A spirit sneezing in the Auerbach is freed when a traveler blesses him but a curse falls on a cursing traveler.

A sneezing soul under a Paderborn bridge tips over any passing carriage whose driver fails to say a blessing.

A stubborn daughter cursed to dwell in an Eisenach cave can only be saved if a traveler blesses her when she sneezes.

An enchanted castle maiden with golden curly hair periodically appears on a Harz mountain cliff bearing her footprint.

A daughter who gathers blueberries on Sunday instead of attending church is cursed by her mother and turns to stone.

A mother curses her disobedient daughter's bridal bed which turns to stone on her wedding night during a storm.

An angry father curses his lazy son to stand in one spot for seven years wearing deep holes into the floorboards.

Peasants mocking Christmas mass are cursed by a priest to dance for a whole year without stopping for food or rest.

Spinnings on Sunday bring fire that consumes a home while a Sunday plowman has his tool grow directly into his hand.

A giant queen is turned to stone after her servant abuses bread crumbs to wipe mud off her young son.

Overproud knights are struck by the plague before a beautiful daughter is slain by a rejected black knight.

A vain daughter who wears hollowed-out rolls as shoes to church sinks with her castle into the ground.

Angry boys who stomp and whip their bread are swallowed up by a sudden sinkhole while the innocent boy escapes.

A grieving mother buries her child in shoes made of bread, whose spirit haunts her until they are replaced.

A rich widow who dumps grain into the sea has her harbor blocked by a sandbank where only deaf grass grows.

A proud maiden who wastes grain is ruined after a swallowed ring predicted her demise from starvation.

Greedy and heartless people who refuse bread to the needy have their loaves miraculously turned to stone.

A cruel archbishop who burns starving peasants in a barn is chased and eaten alive by mice in a Rhine tower.

Two begging boys who refuse to share a small loaf of bread fight and beat each other to death with fence stakes.

A Thuringian town is named after two children who ride hobbyhorses on a bridge and drown in the river below.

A strange piper lures Hamelin's rats into a river and later leads all the children away when citizens refuse pay.

A miller takes a magic cane left by a rat catcher, causing all the rats in the village to follow him to his mill.

A Salzburg sorcerer who boasts he can gather and destroy all snakes is coiled and dragged to his death by a giant one.

A sleeping maid dies after a curious bystander moves her body, preventing her soul mouse from returning.

A master watches his maids send black smoke to press a stableboy and dies after shaking one during her sleep.

Farmhands follow a maid who turns into a cat in a hollow willow tree, leaving her body lifeless until she returns.

Witches who attempt to freeze crops or call down hail are punished by local citizens or fail in their magic.

A whistling boy who climbs a tree to play for a witch gathering invokes God's name, causing them all to vanish.

A court illusionist tricks his dinner guests into holding their own noses with knives, believing they cut grapes.

A Magdeburg crowd watches a magician and his household climb a rope into the sky, while he walks back to his inn.

A magic linen shirt spun by two innocent young girls on Christmas Eve protects its wearer from all battle wounds.

Soldiers who know the art of invulnerability ward off all bullets or shake them unharmed from their sleeves.

A magic marksman is able to hit any named target within range, even if he fires at random through a window.

A mysterious hunter puts an end to a series of phantom sniper killings in a haunted forest.

A sick nobleman is tricked by a traveler into accusing his honest neighbor of witchcraft through a phantom double.

A nobleman is plagued by a phantom that perfectly mirrors his wife and follows them through every house.

An innocent nurse is executed for suffocating a baby and leaves behind a curse on the family's firstborn sons.

A clairvoyant boy senses a hidden skeleton in a garden and slowly wastes away from his terrifying visions.

A mysterious thunderous blow strikes a canon's seat in Merseburg Cathedral three weeks before his death.

A warning lily descending onto a monk's seat in Corvey Abbey leads to the sudden death of a young mock monk.

A Lubeck canon tries to pass a death warning rose to his neighbor, resulting in a curse that shakes his tomb.

Self-tolling church and house bells warn citizens of a town of their impending death or that of their loved ones.

A shapeshifting spectre in Tyrol peers through windows to signal the imminent death of those residing within.

The ghostly White Lady of Neuhaus signals the imminent death or joy of several noble families she visits.

The terrifying wild Berta punishes girls who fail to spin their flax by cutting open their bellies.

Lucerne forest storms and winter solstice spirits chase girls who have not finished their daily spinning work.

The mythical Night Hunter of the Giant Mountains pursues small moss-clothed spirits fleeing through the woods.

A bearded ghost in a slouch hat visits an old woman in a ruined castle and silently smokes a pipe at her table.

A grey ghost forces an Auerbach farmer to carry him up to the castle hill, leading to the farmer's fatal exhaustion.

The Pomeranian house spirit Chimmeke chops up a kitchen boy in Schloss Lonz for eating his daily milk offering.

A shapeshifting forest ghost mimicking animal cries terrifies local shepherds and leads travelers astray.

Ghostly monks cross the Rhine in Speyer, beating a fisherman during a storm before flying away in a fiery cart.

A will-o-the-wisp follows a mocking girl into her parents' home and beats the family with its fiery wings.

A watchman in Odenwald encounters two horrific fiery carriages carrying ghosts with flames shooting from their mouths.

A Nassau butcher enters a ghostly mansion, drinks a third cup from three monks, and dies three days later.

Brushing a warning light off a pitchfork three times results in a fatal duel between two close farmer friends.

Baltic Sea people witness glowing apparitions of ships, houses, and people warning of their impending doom.

A brave Tyrolean nobleman climbs a cursed mountain to explore a fiery castle and is abducted by a black rider.

A guide leads a shepherd into the fiery Feuerberg where a deceased debtor count hands him a proof of his damnation.

A transparent fiery man walking between boundary stones and spitting fire from his mouth terrifies the local villagers.

Deceitful land surveyors are cursed to wander after death as will-o-the-wisps guarding the borders they manipulated.

The ghost of a fraudulent nobleman touches a girl on her breast, turning it black and causing her death in three days.

Villagers resolve a land border dispute by tracking a crawfish walking across a field to place their boundary stones.

Uri and Glarus runners compete in a boundary race started by rooster crows, ending in a Glarner runner carrying Uri.

Entlebuch shepherds silently steal Obwalden cattle by removing their cowbells and win the subsequent armed conflict.

A cursed monastery stone brings severe misfortune to any owner who dares to move it from its designated place.

Altenberg villagers fail to move a mountaintop church down to the valley as its stones return uphill every night.

Two condemned criminals descend into a Kashubian abyss and find a hidden garden and a king sitting on a silver chair.

An ancient German prophecy foretells that Germany will eventually be absorbed entirely into Switzerland.

A spring, a black ground, and a giant poplar tree warn local villagers of an impending bloody battle in the field.

A rumor warns that when the tilted tongue of the scale of Justice in Bamberg becomes balanced, the world will end.

A man let down on a rope into a deep cave encounters Emperor Frederick sitting on a golden throne with his knights.

A Thuringian shepherd plays his bagpipe for Emperor Frederick on a mountain and is rewarded with a golden vessel leg.

Three legendary Swiss liberators sleep in a hidden cave, briefly waking to ask a shepherd if the time has come.

Swiss mountain dwarves reward a plowing shepherd and his servant with a tablecloth and a plate of fresh cake.

A master curses the sweet Swiss pine nut trees to grow only on precipitous cliffs, punishing lazy servants.

A hidden valley high on the Mattenberg serves as a sanctuary for animals, accessible only once every twenty years.

A mountain dwarf promises a hunter weekly chamois meat, but kills him when the hunter breaks the pact to hunt again.

Helpful Harz dwarves lend wedding kitchen utensils to local villagers from their rock cave, demanding timely returns.

A shepherd finds a magic flower on the Kyffhäuser, enters a vault of gold, but loses the flower forever.

A midwife delivers a water sprite's baby in a lake cave but later sees a bloody stream representing the child's murder.

A knight tastes a forbidden water drink and sinks into a lake where his daughter is held captive by a giant snake.

A youth sets the village clock back to keep three lake maidens longer, leading to their tragic deaths in the water.

A magician offers to rescue a drowned bridegroom from a Magdeburg nix in exchange for the couple's souls.

Graf Eberhard encounters a lord cursed to hunt the same stag for centuries with a face dried up like a sponge.

A Dresden woman meets a headless horseman holding his own head who warns her to repent of her sins.

A Brunswick master hunter kills a boar from his prophetic dream but dies from a wound caused by kicking its tusk.

A howling Thuringian nun is banished as an owl to the Harz where she joins the wild hunt of Hackelnberg.

A robber knight's servant learns from a black rider of the Wild Hunt that he will die and ride their empty horse.

The Faithful Eckhart leads the spectral Wild Hunt on Fat Tuesday, warning onlookers to clear the way for safety.

A man uses a magic bouquet to enter a mountain cave of gold but forgets it, turning his treasures to paper.

An old man shows a shepherd a cave of treasures that remains open only if the mortal leaves his gloves inside.

A cursed princess of Ilsenstein gives a charcoal burner a satchel of gold disguised as acorns and pinecones.

A Silesian pagan princess with magical strength is walled up after committing incest and haunts those who mock her.

A princess leaps across a Harz abyss to escape a giant, leaving a hoofprint and dropping her golden crown.

A giantess scoops up a ploughman and leaps across the Selke Valley, leaving her footprints pressed into the rock.

A maiden flees a lustful monk at Oybin monastery and leaps off a cliff, saved from injury by descending angels.

A knight leaps off a steep cliff into the Zschopau valley to escape enemies, surviving while his horse is killed.

A giant forest warden presents lion cubs as wolves to his duke and is rewarded with lands that become Hitzacker.

A giant drops a stone that pinched his shoe, which becomes a narrow tunnel used for stableboy initiation rites.

A giantess scoops up a human farmer with his plough and oxen to show her husband at Castle Lichtenberg.

A giant jumping over Westeregeln nicks his toe on a church spire, creating a red pool of giant blood.

Stonecutters digging up giant graves in Pomerania flee after hearing a spooky rustling of keys around them.

Dead ancestors rise from their graves in Wehrstedt to defend their children from a pagan invasion.

Hans Heiling makes a pact with the devil to turn a wedding party to stone after the bride rejects him.

A princess grows a beard to protect her vow of chastity, is crucified, and drops her slipper to a minstrel.

The ghost of a disgraced girl pursues a cruel Vogt around Castle Schwanau until he drowns in the lake.

Twelve sisters avenge their brother by killing twelve robber barons, leading to their tragic end in Mummelsee.

A kind peddler sharing bread with a mouse is rewarded with gold coins, leading to the construction of a church.

Three craftsmen attempting to dig up a church treasure near Erfurt are killed by the guarding evil spirit.

A nobleman mockingly invites hanged thieves to dinner, leading to a chilling prophecy and his own execution.

An innkeeper drunkenly invites three hanged men to dine, receives a terrifying visit, and dies three days later.

A shepherd tricks the devil into building a bridge across the Reuss by sending a chamois across it first.

The devil takes one of the king's twelve Johns every year as a toll from their flying magic disk.

A farmer accepts the devil's help to dig a ditch, but the seven helper workers pay with their lives.

A princess is turned to stone by mountain spirits but is later redeemed by a holy image.

A mayor's resurrected wife is let inside only after his white horses miraculously climb to the hayloft.

A captain witnesses the ghost of a dying mistress of the robes visiting a deceased queen at midnight.

A tiny white bird on an oak tree gives Barbara Sellentius a prophecy for the Duke of Pomerania.

The Wandering Jew visits a city on the Matterberg and foretells its transformation into snow and ice.

A selfish woman refuses to share butter with God in disguise, leading to the burial of her entire village.

The weeping willow hangs its branches to the earth in eternal mourning for being used to scourge Christ.

A miraculous image of Christ in Wittenberg always appears exactly one inch taller than the viewer.

A desecrated image of Mary flees to a high cliff and turns rescue ropes as thin as hair to prevent removal.

An angel commands a larch trunk to grow an image of Mary, and a woodcutter is chosen by a voice to build a chapel.

A community uses yoked oxen to locate the divinely chosen site for building Saint Stephen church.

Princess Notburga escapes a forced marriage by riding a white stag across the Neckar to live in a cave.

Emperor Friedrich the Third orders citizens to use extremely sour wine to slake mortar for building Saint Stephen.

A poor father sells his child to murderers for money that turns into dry leaves after the child is killed.

A murdered girl raises her hand from a river to expose her killers, whose guilt is proven as her wounds bleed.

Count Ernst of Klettenberg rides his horse into a church during vespers, causing the horseshoes to fall off.

A proud knight sinks into the church floor after demanding a larger host, while roses bloom from a dry stock.

A victim of a murder in the Kirchetbuel gorge leaves a permanent handprint pressed into a solid stone.

A brother and sister commit incest and are decapitated by the devil, leaving a headless mark on their gravestone.

A greedy councilor trains a jackdaw to steal coins from the treasury and dies starving on a high tower ledge.

A double rainbow appears over Prague to comfort twenty-seven men condemned to death for their part in a revolt.

A rain shower falls from a clear blue sky to witness the innocence of an accused woman at her execution site.

A boy lost in a snowstorm is protected from the cold and fed by a mysterious messenger sent from heaven.

A priest is shown three extremely ancient men, each older than the last, who live in a state of holy waiting.

Germanic tribes fight for a salt-rich river, believing its divine harvest connects them directly to the gods.

Slaves washing the sacred wagon of the goddess Hertha are swallowed by the lake to protect her holy secrets.

Semnones perform a human sacrifice in a sacred grove where everyone must enter bound in chains of submission.

An exiled Germanic tribe seeking a home is repeatedly driven away until all their youth are wiped out.

Mutinous Germanic conscripts flee Britain in stolen ships, resort to cannibalism, and are sold as slaves.

The Goths migrate under their first kings, but a collapsed bridge permanently divides their army during migration.

After a bridge collapses, half of the migrating Goths are isolated in an unreachable swamp where their echoes persist.

The removal of three buried silver statues guarding the northern border triggers a barbarian invasion of Thrace.

Famine-stricken Goths sell their children for dog meat to Roman exploiters, leading to a historic rebellion.

The Goths divert a river to bury King Alaric with his treasures, executing the diggers to keep it secret.

A Vandal king is assassinated in Spain, either for mocking a short man or due to a servant's ancient blood feud.

Starving Goths are mocked by Vandals with the derogatory name Truller after buying overpriced grain.

An accidental arrow hit from a drunk bodyguard kills a commander, allowing Vandal King Gelimer to escape.

Vandal King Gelimer is outwitted with a silver chain by Belisarius and proves his courage in a combat trial.

Banished Gothic witches mate with wild forest-spirits in the desert, giving rise to the feral Huns.

A miraculous female deer guides Hun hunters through an impassable swamp, revealing a secret path to Scythia.

Rumors attribute the Huns' origin to exile, a ransom horse, or a union between a wizard and a she-wolf.

A shepherd finds a buried sword that wounded a cow and presents it to King Attila as a sign of world dominion.

Attila interprets storks leaving a besieged city as a prophetic sign, motivating his army to sack Aquileia.

Guilt-ridden King Theodoric mistakes a served fish head for his executed servant Symmachus and falls mortally ill.

A holy hermit on Lipari sees a vision of the deceased King Theodoric being thrown into the volcano crater.

A queen's humiliation at the baths leads to a nobleman's murder and subsequent revenge against the king.

Gothic King Totila tests Saint Benedict with a masquerade, but the saint instantly exposes the fake king.

The blind Bishop Sabinus detects Totila's identity by touch and later survives a poison attempt by his archdeacon.

Overpopulated Winili draw lots to migrate under Ibor and Ayo, defeating Vandals and settling in Italy.

In a famine-stricken Denmark, Ebbe and Aage's mother suggests casting lots for a third of the Goths to migrate.

Led by Gambara, the exiled Goths refuse to pay Vandal tribute and resolve to fight for their freedom.

The Goths use a clever dog-headed warrior scare to bypass Assipiter borders, resolved in single combat.

Seven Roman sleepers in a coastal cave remain incorruptible, protected by a curse against thieves.

Lamissio wins a swimming duel against an Amazon champion, securing river passage for the Lombards.

King Agelmund rescues an abandoned boy who grabs his spear in a fishpond, naming him Lamissio.

A princess mocks a short envoy, leading to a fatal insult and his cowardly assassination from behind.

Alboin is armed by the Gepid king in his slain son's seat, earning the right to speise with his father.

Mocked by the Empress with a golden spindle, Narses retaliates by inviting the Lombards to invade Italy.

Alboin climbs a mountain named Königsberg to survey Italy, a land rumored to house giant wisents.

Alboin's horse collapses at the gate, rising only after the king breaks a vow to massacre the citizens.

Alboin forces Queen Rosimund to drink from her father's skull cup, driving her to plot his death.

After Alboin's murder, Helmichis and Rosimund flee to Ravenna, where they both end up poisoning each other.

King Authari rides into the sea at Reggio and strikes a column with his spear to establish the Lombard border.

King Authari wooes Bavarian princess Theodelind in disguise, revealing his identity with a touch.

Queen Theodelind chooses Agilulf as king, proposing with a kiss during their meeting at Laumell.

Theodelind is assaulted by a sea monster, giving birth to a dark prince who grows up cruel and malicious.

Romhild betrays Friuli for love of the Hun king Cacan, who later cruelly executes her for treachery.

An escaping captive boy is guided by a wolf and saved from starvation in the wilderness by a prophetic dream.

A fly chopped of one leg by the king transforms into a one-legged man who warns the targets of the murder plot.

King Liutprand's exceptionally long feet become the standard unit for measuring Goth fields.

A king father tests five newborn sons with a spear, sparing and naming the child who grabs the shaft.

A cuckoo perching on Hildeprand's coronation spear is interpreted as a sign of a useless and brief reign.

Old hero Walter of Aquitaine does penance in a monastery, defending its transports from robbers with a simple stick.

The Saxons and King Aschanes grow out of the Harz rocks, and Saxon maidens grow on forest trees.

Alexander's veterans land on the Elbe and betray the resident Thuringians using large Saxe knives.

Alexander's surviving veterans settle in Saxony, sparing local peasants and binding them as serfs.

A Saxon youth tricks a Thuringian by exchanging gold chains for land, scattering gold dust to claim a wide territory.

British King Vortigern invites the Saxons to defend Britain, prompting a massive Saxon migration.

The Picts are redirected by the Scots to settle in northern Britain, securing Scottish wives under matrilineal terms.

The Saxons cut an ox-hide into a thin cord, claiming a large territory to build Ochsenburg fortress.

Swabians take Goth wives during their campaign, causing a return war and disinheriting the traitorous women.

The Swabians' ancestors land at Mount Suevo and their Duke Brenno fights Julius Caesar.

The Bavarians immigrate from Armenia, forging legendary swords and fighting Julius Caesar.

Trojans escaping the fall of Troy wander to the Rhine, founding a new Troy called Santen.

Queen Clodio is overwhelmed by a sea monster, giving birth to Merovech, the ancestor of the bristly kings.

An exiled King uses a split gold ring to signal his return, winning the Thuringian Queen Basina.

Clovis avenges a broken church vase by slaying the proud warrior who struck it with an axe.

Remigius walks the borders of his granted land; a stubborn miller's wheel spins backward as punishment.

Remigius' footprints press into stone as he drives a raging fire out of Rheims and locks the city gate.

A magical boundary stone in a hollow tree cannot be removed, withering the hand of a thief who strikes it.

Envoy Aurelian disguises as a beggar to slip Clovis' betrothal ring to Burgundian princess Clotilda.

A mourning Queen chooses death over shearing for her grandsons; the brutal kings murder the boys.

The loyal cook Leo gains a Frankish lord's trust to rescue the noble hostage Attalus on horseback.

King Guntram's soul exits as a snake to find a treasure cave, guided by a servant's sword bridge.

Frankish soldiers carry tree branches and horse bells to trick Childebert's army into routing.

Clotaire avenges his wounded son Dagobert by crossing the Weser and slaying Duke Bertoald.

Dagobert finds sanctuary in Saint Denis' chapel after shearing a Duke's beard, escaping Clotaire's wrath.

Saint Arbogast resurrects King Dagobert's son Sigebert after he is trampled to death by a horse during a boar hunt.

Hermit Florentius bounds wild beasts with wooden rods and cures King Dagobert's blind and mute daughter.

Saints intercept devils on the sea, rescuing King Dagobert's soul from being carried to hell.

French popular proverbs remember King Dagobert's deep companionship and parting words to his dogs.

King Pepin tricks his second queen with her identical stepson, resolving a maternity dilemma.

Empress Hildegard traps the treacherous stepbrother Taland in a bridal chamber, defending her honor.

Queen Hildegard settles the royal succession dispute between her sons using a cockfight.

Charlemagne's signet ring dropped in a cup rescues Queen Hildegard from a forced remarriage.

Charlemagne releases a stag with a golden collar, which is only recaptured centuries later by Barbarossa.

A minstrel sings of a secret pass and guides Charlemagne's army over the mountains to defeat the Lombards.

King Desiderius watches in terror from a tower as the iron-clad army of Charlemagne approaches.

A princess betrays Pavia for Charlemagne's love, only to be trampled to death by the entering army.

The disguised Prince Adelgis splits marrow bones at Charlemagne's table and escapes in a boat.

Charlemagne wins Frisia from King Radbod in a standing contest by picking up a dropped glove.

Duke Radbod pulls his foot out of the baptismal font to avoid spending eternity apart from his pagan ancestors.

Radbod's messenger is guided by an angel to expose the devil's magnificent golden palace as a sulfur pit.

Duke Wittekind spies on Charlemagne in beggar's garb, sees a miracle during Mass, and accepts baptism.

Defeated Saxons bury an old woman alive at a ford to prevent her capture, leaving a haunted field.

A wild doe guides Charlemagne's fleeing army across a hidden ford on the Main river, founding Frankfurt.

Charlemagne grants the Swabians the vanguard privilege at Roncesvalles upon Duke Gerold's kneeling request.

Emma carries Eginhard across the snowy courtyard to hide footprints; Charlemagne witnesses it and blesses them.

Charlemagne's magic ring shifted to a lake, drawing him to build his palace on its shore.

Charlemagne executes an invading toad for a snake, receiving a precious gemstone in gratitude.

Young Charles is summoned to Rome by a dream voice, where his brother Pope Leo crowns him Emperor.

A soldier's weasel-like soul crosses a stream over a guard's sword, finding gold in a hill.

A miracle fixes a Marian image to a tree stump, and a summer snowfall defines the boundaries of Hildesheim Cathedral.

Emperor Louis's lost reliquary cross is found on a blooming winter rosebush, where he builds a chapel.

King Louis hides a severe rib injury during a campaign, his rib audibly rattling as he rides.

Queen Richardis proves her innocence against false adultery charges by surviving a trial by fire in a wax smock.

Queen Adelaide's besieged castle forces the enemy to retreat by feeding grain to a wild boar, faking abundance.

King Charles the Fat is guided by an angel through hellish sulfur wells and paradise valleys.

Archbishop Hatto tricks Count Adalbert with a literal breakfast ruse to execute him despite a safe conduct vow.

Duke Henry avoids a lethal strangulation trap after a smith warns him of Hatto's golden collar.

Duke Henry of Saxony is found catching birds in the woods when the princes arrive to elect him Emperor.

Kuno 'Kurzbold', a small but brave hero, defeats rebel dukes during a chess match and slays an escaped court lion.

Emperor Otto swears by his red beard to protect a young knight who avenged a page struck by a cook.

A humble shoemaker is chosen by a mysterious voice to fight the pagan champion, winning Pappenheim's arms.

Bishop Willigis, of humble origin, turns his detractors' mocking chalk wheels into his official coat of arms.

Emperor Otto's hunter Ramm discovers the Harz silver mines when his tied horse uncovers ore with its hooves.

An Emperor's daughter warns a Count of a tournament plot to seize his castle, leading to peace and marriage.

Young Emperor Otto III fakes his death with a dead child to protest being beaten, securing his full reign.

King Otto issues leather coins in Mailand and later returns to fulfill his justice promise witnessed by a church.

An innocent knight falsely accused of raping the Empress flows white milk instead of blood at execution.

A executed count's widow proves his innocence by carrying a red-hot iron, demanding the Empress's execution.

Emperor Otto III breaks open Charlemagne's tomb, finding him sitting upright on a throne, and pays his respects.

Empress Kunigunde walks barefoot over seven red-hot iron plowshares to prove her chaste marriage.

Empress Kunigunde builds Bamberg Cathedral, pay-scale miracle of the money bowl, and forces the Devil to carry columns.

A pigeon flies into a besieged city with a warning message tied to its neck, saving it from a surprise attack.

Saint Lawrence throws a golden chalice onto the scales of judgment to save Emperor Henry's soul, leaving a notch.

A voice prophesies a fugitive's newborn son will marry the Emperor's daughter; despite death orders, fate prevails.

Women allowed to carry what they can carry from a besieged castle choose to carry their husbands on their shoulders.

Bishop Bruno is cursed by a demon at the Danube Strudel; later, the floor collapses and kills him.

Princess Mathild avoids the Devil's claim by staying awake with the help of her loyal barking dog Quedl.

Young Hildebrand's papacy is predicted; Prince Henry IV hates the boy out of instinctive future rivalry.

Saxons reject Henry's son and elect counter-king Hermann, mockingly dubbed 'Garlic King' at Eisleben.

Emperor Henry V tests his wife's fidelity in disguise; she discovers the ruse and orders him beaten.

Graf Hoyer makes an overconfident victory vow on a softening stone, but is slain in battle.

Excommunicated Emperor Frederick II rides into the forest to hunt and vanishes forever using a magic ring.

Albertus Magnus hosts a winter garden banquet where he temporarily conjures a warm, blooming summer.

Trithemius conjures the ghost of Mary of Burgund for Maximilian, but warns him to remain silent.

Duke Adelger defeats Emperor Severus after his wise adviser warns him via a public stag parable.

A male stork returns with other storks to judge and execute his unfaithful wife.

Duke Henry keeps the roads safe from robbers and smashes clay pots as a warning to corrupt guardians.

After beheading, Diez's headless body stands up and runs past his servants to save their lives.

Duke Otto takes Passau and executes papal legate Albert, whose flaying is commemorated in the city coat of arms.

Otto the Finner sells his lands and wastes his wealth living with a miller's daughter.

Leopold summons the Devil to free King Frederick, but Frederick refuses to fly with the Devil.

Leopold vows to build a monastery where his wife's wind-blown veil is found, discovering it 8 years later.

The Duchess of Austria sends the singing knight Brennberger to France to compare her beauty to the Queen's.

The jealous Duke has Brennberger beheaded and serves his heart to the Duchess, who dies of grief.

Robber Schreckenwald imprisons victims in a tiny cliff ledge; one escapes via a daring jump, sealing the robber's doom.

The ghostly Margaretha Maultasch slaps mockers at the Klagenfurt arsenal and haunts Osterwitz ruins.

The defenders of Dietrichstein Castle escape silently under the cover of a thick evening fog.

Defenders trick Margaretha Maultasch by throwing a fed ox over the wall to fake abundance.

Graf Radbod builds Habsburg and shows his brother Werner a living wall of loyal vassals.

Saint Michael weighs proud King Rudolf's soul and strikes the Devil to prevent him from pulling down the scale.

Accused of adultery due to a stolen ring, Idda survives a fall from the cliff and lives as a holy hermit.

Swiss ancestors draw lots during a famine and march south across the Alps to settle the valleys.

Bailiff Landenberg tries to seize a peasant's oxen; the son resists, and the father is blinded.

Wolfenschiessen tries to force Conrad's wife into his bath; Conrad returns and kills him with an axe.

Stauffacher's new house is eyed by Gessler; Stauffacher, Arnold, and Walter swear the eternal covenant.

Wilhelm Tell refuses to bow to Gessler's hat and is forced to shoot an apple off his son's head.

A boy bound by oath reveals a coup plot by telling it to a tiled stove in a butcher's guildhall.

Charlemagne grants Lucerne the right to bear brass war horns in battle.

Irmentrut mocks a mother of triplets, then bears twelve sons and tries to drown eleven, who are saved by Isenbart.

Duke Frederick defeats the Bavarians, cementing the war cries of Welfen and Giblinger.

Duke Balthasar passes off a hunter's son as his own; the truth is revealed but Bundus retains his duchy.

Heinrich uses a golden cart and fresh relays of horses to encircle and claim a vast Bavarian estate.

Henry claims a large forest territory by encircling it with a golden plow during the Emperor's nap.

Henry is shipwrecked, makes a pact with a lion, and is carried home on a griffin to stop his wife's wedding.

A charcoal burner finds silver under his pile and buys a duchy from a deposed King.

Peter makes a pact with a fairy bride but dies on his wedding day to a princess when he breaks his vow.

Möringer returns from a 7-year pilgrimage just in time to stop his wife's wedding to Neufen.

Hubert chooses poverty, becomes a cowherd, and begs at his wife's wedding gate to reclaim his estate.

Udalrich returns from captivity; a crabapple miracle by Wiborad foretells his return to Wendelgart.

Countess Gertrud uses a tiny plow hidden in her bosom and a horse ride to claim land for a monastery.

Ulrich encounters a silent procession of a thousand souls and is shown the secrets of purgatory.

Albert hunts a white stag that leads him to an underground fairy palace.

Andreas counsels peace before the Battle of Tannenberg but is mocked, later fighting to the death.

A Verdun citizen makes a pact with the devil for money and is eventually carried off to hell on a black steed.

A knight is forced to plow fields in captivity, but his wife's woven shirt remains miraculously clean.

Genovefa is falsely accused of adultery by Golo and cast out, surviving in a cave with a doe.

Exiled Carl Ynach flees Rome with Germana, guided down the Rhine by a mysterious swan.

Beatrix bears septuplets with silver chains; Matabruna steals them, turning the boys into swans.

A swan knight defends Beatrix and marries her on the condition that she never ask his origin.

Lohengrin is summoned from Montsalvat to defend Elsa, warning her never to ask his name.

Loherangrin is stabbed by his wife's suspicious relatives who seek to bind him by a magic ritual.

The Duke of Saxony seizes Brabant; a swan knight defends the Duchess's daughter but leaves when questioned.

A silent knight arrives in a swan boat with a letter; he is raised to Duke by Karl and marries Adalis.

Three brothers build Plesse Castle, guided by their hunter bastard brother Heiso.

Otto of Oldenburg is offered a drink by a mountain maiden, but pours it away and steals the horn.

Friedrich volunteers to fight a lion to save his father, using a straw dummy to trick the beast.

Uffo dreams his wife bore him nine children, which turn out to be nine churches she founded.

Amalaberga goads Hermenfried into war by half-covering the dining table.

The Thuringian advisor Iring kills his King Irmenfried for Dieterich, but avenges him when betrayed.

Adelheid plots with Ludwig of Thuringia to murder her husband Pfalzgraf Friedrich during an illegal hunt.

Ludwig the Springer claims a steep hill by carrying Thuringian soil to it and swearing a literal oath.

Ludwig escapes execution by leaping from the high tower of Gibichenstein Castle into the Saale river.

Ludwig founds Reinhartsbrunn Abbey after a potter informs him of two mysterious lights seen at night.

Ludwig gets lost and stays at a Ruhla smithy, where the smith's shouts goad him to become hard like iron.

Ludwig the Iron punishes rebellious nobles by harnessing them to a plow and forcing them to plow fields.

Ludwig presents his fully armored knights to the Emperor as a living wall surrounding the castle.

Fearing him even in death, the rebellious nobles carry Ludwig's coffin ten miles on their shoulders.

A priest conjures the devil to show Ludwig the Mild that his father's soul is tormented on a red-hot iron throne.

Six Minnesingers hold a singing contest at the Wartburg with lethal stakes; Ofterdingen escapes death.

Martin Luther translates the Bible in his chamber and throws his inkwell to drive away the tempting devil.

Hungarian Princess Elisabeth is betrothed to young Ludwig and sent to Thuringia in a silver cradle.

A war of succession breaks out as the Hessians support Saint Elisabeth's infant son Heinrich for ruler.

Sophie throws her glove, declaring Hessen's loyalty, after the Markgraf of Meißen refuses her claims.

Margaret escapes her murderous husband and bites her son's cheek so he will remember her sorrow.

Under siege, Friedrich breakout and halts his retreat repeatedly to let a wet-nurse feed his baby.

Prince Otto flees to Cleves to serve as an archer, later returning to inherit Hesse.

Philip travels incognito, pays a poor woman's tax, and hears her wish that he had the hot gold in his belly.

Philip literally hangs Heinz von Lüder in a golden chain to satisfy a imperial command without hurting him.

Moritz disguises as a beggar to join a wealthy soldier in a nightly treasure hunt using magic roots.

A lost prince seeks food at a charcoal burner's hut, receiving bread and salt, rewarding him with a silver stirrup.

A Countess builds Nidda Castle where her donkey stubbornly stops and refuses to move.

Otto marks his new land on a hill where he finds a thornbush with three white flowers.

A knight clever sows a bushel of barley in a thin border to claim the entire County of Mansfeld.

A noble lord sees a wild birch hen fly up from a hill, naming his new castle Henneberg after it.

Count Gebhard rescues his eight infant sons whom his fearful wife ordered to be drowned as puppies.

Saint Bruno's mule stubbornly refuses to move, warning him against his fatal missionary trip to Prussia.

Cornered on a cliff by his enemies, Thalmann spurs his horse off the precipice into the Saale river.

A robber knight misses his path in the dark and is saved by his horse, leading him to repent and become a monk.

Count Ludwig escapes Turkish slavery with the Sultan's daughter and returns to live in a bigamous marriage.

A starving father is about to kill his child during a famine, but is stopped when he sees two wolves killing a hind.

A poor cow-herd is blessed with fourteen sons born in a single year, requiring a large baptismal basin.

Countess Margaretha mocks a poor beggar woman and is cursed to give birth to 365 children at once.

Agnes murders her two children to marry Albert, but is rejected and becomes the death-warning White Lady.

The youngest princess loses her dearest plaything, the golden ball, down a deep well.

A cat and a mouse set up house together as partners.

The Virgin Mary takes in a woodcutter's starving child and later punishes her secret disobedience.

A fearless boy sets out into the world to learn what shuddering and fear even mean.

A wicked wolf devours seven kids, but the mother saves them and drowns the wolf in the well.

A dying king entrusts faithful Johannes with the care of his young son.

Two one-eyed creatures share a house until a borrowed eye breeds betrayal and lasting enmity.

A poor farmer drives his cow to market and sells her for a seemingly worthless promise.

A lonely fiddler wanders the forest, luring the animals with his violin.

A slighted girl gets a magic knife from an elf, until her brothers hack off the helper's arm.

A king resolves to kill his twelve sons if a daughter is born.

A proud cock and hen go travelling and cheat their innkeeper.

A little brother and sister flee their wicked stepmother.

A man steals rampion for his pregnant wife from a dreaded sorceress's garden.

An envious stepmother drives her lovely stepdaughter into the winter woods in a paper dress.

Three strange spinners help a lazy girl master the queen's impossible spinning task.

Two children abandoned in the forest outwit a wicked witch and return home rich to their father.

A poor youth goes to war, wins through bravery, and gains the princess as his wife.

A cunning servant wins his king the princess with grateful animals and rises to first minister.

A curious servant secretly tastes the king's covered dish, a white snake.

In a kitchen a straw, a coal, and a bean escape death by fire.

A poor fisherman catches a talking flounder that reveals itself as an enchanted prince.

A little tailor swats seven flies on his jam bread and sets out into the world.

A pious, hardworking girl loses her own mother and is tormented by her stepmother.

A prince and his faithful servant set out into the world and lose their way in a dark forest.

Children playing at slaughtering a sow set off an inquiry with grave consequences.

A mouse, a bird, and a sausage live together in a happy little household.

A widow favours her lazy own daughter and forces her hardworking stepdaughter to toil.

An angry father curses his seven sons into ravens, and their sister sets out to find them.

A wolf tricks Little Red Cap and swallows her and her grandmother, until a huntsman saves them.

Four old animals flee death and scare robbers from a forest house with one loud concert.

A contented goose-boy follows Death to the next world while a miser is punished for his greed.

A man kills his brother for the boar-hunt's glory and is exposed years later by a singing bone.

A child of fortune escapes a king's plots and fetches three golden hairs from the Devil himself.

A small brewing mishap plunges house and nature into grief and ends in a flood.

A maimed girl flees the Devil and is saved and healed by God's grace and a faithful king.

Hans takes his mother's advice literally and ruins his own courtship of his bride Gretel.

A cast-out son learns the animals' speech, finds a treasure, and rises by providence to pope.

A crafty cat wins his poor master wealth, a castle, and a princess with boots, a sack, and guile.

A supposedly clever bride loses herself in catastrophic worries and forgets who she even is.

Lazy Trine, doubting who she is over a shortened skirt, leaves home never to return.

A tailor sneaks into Heaven, sits on God's throne, and is banished for his self-righteousness.

Three brothers gain magic gifts, are robbed by an innkeeper, and win them back with a cudgel.

A tiny boy helps his father, escapes kidnappers and thieves, and is freed from a wolf's belly.

Three sons gain magic devices, rout enemy armies, and rescue their needy mother.

Mr Fox feigns death to test his wife, who turns away every suitor but a nine-tailed one.

Two naked elves secretly make shoes for a poor cobbler until he gifts them clothes.

A miller's daughter visits her sinister groom's forest house and unmasks him as a murderer.

A cock and hen travel with an odd company to wicked Herr Korbes's house and punish him.

A poor father seeks a godfather, grows famous through a magic water, and meets the Devil.

A girl ignores her parents' warning, visits the eerie Frau Trude, and is burned by her.

A blood sausage lures the liver sausage into a deadly trap she just escapes through a warning.

Death makes a poor boy a famous doctor, then punishes his betrayal with his own life-candle.

The thumb-sized tailor's son roams the world, aids robbers, outwits guards, and escapes a wolf.

A sorcerer abducts sisters but is outwitted by the cleverest, who escapes disguised as a bird.

A wicked stepmother kills her little stepson, who rises as a fair bird and takes just revenge.

An old dog, marked for death as useless, makes a pact with the wolf and proves his loyalty.

A sister sews six shirts in silence to free her brothers from their swan enchantment.

A princess falls into a hundred-year sleep from a spindle, until a prince wakes her.

Two foster children flee a wicked cook by transforming again and again as they run.

A haughty princess mocks every suitor, is married off to a minstrel as punishment, and humbled.