• Devil church
• The tower to Schartfeld
• Winkelried and the Lindwurm
• The virgin in the Oselberg
• Mrs. Huett
• The deaf grain
• The woman sand
• The witch dance


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Devil church

On the Rhoene stand above basalt rock piled up. The devil, when one wanted to build a church in the valley, zuernte and carried all components on the mountain, where he set up it next to each other and no humans could down-carry it again.
      One told, where the devil put his stone down once, one cannot remove him, because whenever one also takes him away, puts the devil another or the same again evenly.

The tower to Schartfeld

Of the tower on Schartfeld report many old people that he no Dachung suffer, the devil in it live and at night much Gerumpels should be up there. Vorzeiten carried for emperor Heinrich IVTH unziemliche love for a gentleman on Schartfeld Ehweib, could not for a long time its will not full-lead. There he came into the monastery Poelde in the county Lutterberg, and a monk made a notice for him. It let the Mr. von Schartfeld demand to itself in the monastery and laid it on a far journey with an advertisement. The knight was the emperor subject and obedient. The emperor with the monk in lay dresses drew, came tags on it on the hunt secretly before the house Schartfeld and from the monk to before the noblewoman Kemenate was led. There it attacked Heinrich and forced it to its will. There the devil the Dachung is the tower thrown off and, in air driving, over the monk geschrien to have that he is guiltier of these Untat to than the emperor. The monk was always sad since the time in the monastery and unfroh.

Winkelried and the Lindwurm

In Unterwalden at the village Wyler lived in the age-old time a terrible Lindwurm, which everything that it arrived, killed cattle and humans, and the whole line veroedete, such that the place received from it the name Oedwyler. There went it itself that a native, Winkelried meant, when it erbot itself a heavy mordtat half nationalvolatilely to become to have, to attack and kill the kite on the condition, if one would leave it afterwards again into its homeland. There the people became gladly and permitted it again into the country; he dares ' it and overcame the monster, by pushing him bundles a Doerner into the up-closed throat. While it searched now, this auszuspeien, and, missed the animal not knew its defense, and the hero used the Bloessen. Glad-luring he raised the arm, with which he held the bluttriefende sword, and showed the inhabitants the victory act, there flowed the poisonous kite blood to the arm and to the bare skin, and he had to leave immediately the life. But the country was errettet and ausgesoehnt; still one shows and calls today's tags the animal dwelling in rock her the kite cave.

The virgin in the Oselberg

Between Dinkelsbuehl and cock comb a lock stood on the Oselberg before old times, where some a virgin economized lived, those to her father as Wittiber and the key to all Gemaechern in their force had. Finally it purged with the walls and dies, and the shouting got along that their spirit appears at night around the walls schwebe and at the four Quatembern in shape Ms, whom a key federation at the side carries. On the other hand old farmers of these places state of their fathers to have heard this Jungfer was old heaths daughter and into a horrible queue was wished; also it in way of a queue, with woman head and chest, a Gebund key at the neck, at that time one see.

Mrs. Huett

In age-old times a powerful giant queen, Mrs. Huett lived mentioned, and lived on the mountains over Innsbruck in the Tirolerland, which are now grey and bald, but at that time fully forests, enrich fields and greener meadows were. On a time its small son home came, cried and jammerte, mud covered him face and hands, in addition to be dress looked black like a charcoal burner smock. It a fir into the hobby had wanted itself to bend, because the tree stood however at the edge of a Morastes, then the soil under him had yielded and it up to the head in decays themselves sunk, but had it still lucky taken out. Mrs. Huett troestete it, promised him a new beautiful Roecklein and called a servant, who should soft Brosamen take and to him thereby face and hands clean. Hardly however this had begun to deal with the holy God gift thus suendlich then a heavy, black thunderstorm therefore pulled which covered the sky completely, and a terrible thunder hit. As it again lightened, there the rich grain fields, green meadows and forests and the dwelling of the Mrs. Huett had disappeared themselves, and everywhere only one desert with absent-minded stones, where no more blade of grass could grow, was in the center however stood for Mrs. Huett, the giant queen, petrified and will in such a way stand up to the recent day.
      In many areas Tirols, in the proximity of Innsbruck, is particularly told to bad and deliberate children the legend for warning, if they throw themselves with bread or drive otherwise over courage thereby. "your Brosamen" saves, it is said, "for for arms, so that it is not issued you like the Mrs. Huett."

The deaf grain

Stavoren in Friesland the inhabitants had become uebermuetig by their wealth proudly and that they let hall and doors fit also gold, the poorer cities of the neighbourhood the defiance. They were not differently called by these therefore than "the delicate children of Stavoren". Among them particularly was an old geizhalsige widow, who laid on a Danzigfahrer, which best ones, which he can load to bring along for their calculation. The boat operator did not know anything Bessers, as he took some thousand loads beautiful Polish Getreid, because at present the departure had the fruit highly confessed in Friesland. On the way however nothing met it like storm and tempest and forced it to fount cross-beam winters, such that, as he touched spring, was completely in prices fallen the grain finally at home and the widow let throw zornig the all charge before the city into the sea. What happened? In the same place a powerful sand bank did up, been called the woman sand, on it nothing as deaf grain (miracle grain, dune helmet, because it helmt the dunes against the sea [ protects ], arundo arenaria) grew since the time, and the sand bank lay before the port, which it closed, and which perished whole port. Thus the penalty for the whole city buildup at the sin of the old woman.

The woman sand

West in the Suedersee in the middle grasses and stems grow out in the place from the sea, where the church towers and proud houses of the former city Stavoren lie in deep tide buried. The wealth had made its inhabitants ruchlos, and as the measure of their misdeeds, perished it was fulfilled soon. Fischer and Schiffer at the beach of the Suedersees away-kept the legend from mouth to mouth.
      The wealthiest all passenger of the city Stavoren was a safe virgin, whose name one does not call more. Proudly on their money and property, hard against humans, it strove only to always still increase their treasures. Curses and blasphemous speeches heard one much from its mouth. Also the remaining citizens of this immoderately rich city, at whose time one did not call Amsterdam yet and Rotterdam a small village was, had left the way of the virtue.
      The virgin their ship master called and instructed tags for him to drive out and a charge of the noblest one and best one to bring along, which in the world would be. In vain the sailor, used to punctual and certain orders, demanded brings instruction closer; the virgin insisted zornig on her word and was called him immediately into the sea stings. The ship master drove off irresolutely and uncertainly, he knew not, as he go-eats its wife, whose bad, strict sense it probably knew, to follow would like and did not consider back and forth, to do what. Finally it thought: I want to bring her a charge koestlichsten wheat, which is Schoeners and Edlers to find on ground connection as this wonderful grain, whose no humans can miss? Thus it steered its ship with select wheat after Danzig, befrachtete and returned then, still jerkily and fear SAM before the exit, again to its homeland. "as, ship master", called him the virgin against, "you is already here? I believed you at the coast of Africa, in order to act gold and ivory, let see, what you loaded." Hesitating, because at their speeches he saw, how little would behagen its purchase it, already answered it: "my wife, I leads you to koestlichsten wheat, that on the whole soil may be found." - "wheat", spoke it, "so miserable things brings you me?" - "I thought, that would be so miserablly not, which gives us our daily and healthy bread." - "I want to show you, how veraechtlich me your charge is; from which side is the ship loaded?" - "from the right side (Stuurboordszyde)", the ship master spoke. - "Wohlan, so instruction I you that you pour to the hour the whole charge on the left side (Backboord) into the sea; I come even and see whether my instruction fulfilled."
      The sailor zauderte to implement an instruction which versuendigte itself so greulich at the gift of God, and appointed in hurry all poor and poor people from the city to the place, where the ship lay, by whose sight it its lady to move hoped. She came and asked: "as my instruction is aligned?" There a crowd of arms fell on the knees before it and asked that it would like to out-divide them the grain to let devour rather than it from the sea. But the heart of the virgin was hard like stone, and it renewed the instruction to throw the whole charge schleunig over board. There the ship master defeated itself longer not and called loud: "no, this malice can leave God ungeraecht, if it is true that the sky is worth property and punishes the bad; day will to come to satisfy, where you gladly the noble grains, which would like to pick up you so playful, one after the other one, your hunger thereby!" - "how", it called with hoellischem laughter, "I is to become poor to be able? I am to fall in poverty and lack of bread? So truely this happens, so truely is to again see also my eyes this ring, which I throw here into the depth the lake." With this word it drew a precious ring of the finger and threw it into the waves. The whole charge of the ship and all wheat, which were on it, were thus paid into the sea.
      What happens? Some days after the farm servant of these women went to market, bought a Schellfisch and wanted him in the kitchen to adjust; when it cut it open, it found therein a precious ring and showed it their wives. How the meisterin saw it, she recognized him immediately for her ring, which she had thrown recently in the sea, paled and felt the harbingers of the punishment in her conscience. However its fright was how large, when in the same instant the message arrived, its whole fleet coming from morning country would have stranded! Few days after the new newspaper of gone down ships came, on which it had still rich charges. The Mohren and Turk robbed another ship; the case of some department stores, where it was complicated, completed soon their misfortune, and hardly was one year flowed, then the terrible threat of the ship master in all pieces fulfilled itself. Poor and of none betrauert, of many verhoehnt, it sank the longer, the more in emergency and misery, hungry begged it bread before the doors and got no bites, finally often diminished it and died desperately.
      The wheat however, which had been poured into the sea, sprouted and grew the following year, but carried it deaf ears. Nobody respected the warning character, however the Ruchlosigkeit of Stavoren took its protecting hand from year to year over hand, there drew God the gentleman off from the bad city. On a time one scooped herring and Butt from the ziehbrunnen, and in the night opened the sea and verschwalg more than three quarters of the city in rushing tide. Still near each year sink some huts of the passengers, and no benediction and no wealthy man in Stavoren are to be found since the time. Annually a grass from the water in the same place, which no herb connoisseur knows still always, grows, which carries and otherwise nowhere for more on ground connection is found no bloom. The stem drives long and highly, the ear resembles the wheat ear, is however deaf and without grains. The sand bank, on which it becomes green, is appropriate entlangs for the city Stavoren and carries no other names than that of the woman sand.

The witch dance

A Mrs. von Hembach had also led its hardly sixteen-year-old son Johannes to the witch meeting, and because he had to whistle to learn, required her, he should them to her dance whistle, and thus one could hear it better, to which highest tree rise. The boy obeyed and rose to the tree. By along-whistling now and its dance with diligence zusahe, perhaps because him everything deuchte in such a way miracle ELT SAM, because going toward there it in naerrische way, speaking he: "Behuet, dear God, from where as much naerrisches and unreasonable Gesinde comes!" Hardly however he had dissuaded these words from, then he fell down from the tree, was set right a shoulder and called, her should him to assistance come, but there nobody was, ohn it alone.