• The fire mountain
• The border controversy
• The Altenberger church
• The three Telle
• The mountain male
• The dwarf holes
• The three young far from from the lake
• The Hackelnberg dream


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The fire mountain

Some hours of half lies formerly balder, now a mountain bewachsener with high firs and oaks, which is called by many the fire mountain. In his depths the devil is to drive its nature and to burn everything in bright flames. Before old times a count in the area of half, who was bad and robbery greedy, lived and which pressed inhabitants of the country, where he could only. A shepherd was it much money since long years guiltily, each time however, if this came and reminded therefore, gave it it schnoede and rejecting answers. The count disappeared at one time, and it meant, it would be died in far landing. The shepherd went betruebt to field and complained about its loss, because inheriting and leaving the count wanted to know nothing from his demand and hunted it, when he announced himself, the castle down there. There it happened that, when it was in the forest, stepped and spoke a shape at a time to it: "you want to see your old debtor, then follow me." The shepherd followed and ward by the forest led up to a high, naked mountain, which opened immediately before both with din, took up it and closed again. Inside everything was a fire. The trembling shepherd saw the count, sitting on a chair, over which, as at the glowing walls and on the soil, thousand flames rolled. The Suender cried: "you want to have money, shepherds, then take this cloth and bring it to the Meinigen; to legend them, like you me in the hell fire sit seen, in which I must suffer in eternity." It on that tore a cloth of its head and gave it to the shepherd, and at his eyes and hands sparks sprayed. The shepherd hurried with varying feet, from his leader led, back; the mountain opened itself again and locked behind it. With the cloth it went then on the count Burg, showed it and told, what it seen; on which they gave it gladly its money.

The border controversy

To Wilmshausen, before times disagreement between the municipality and a neighbouring had risen from a hessian village nearby flowing over its border. One knew to centralize it no longer quite. Thus one came over one to take and him over the contentious field field run let a cancer, followed its traces and put the boundary stones to it. Because it ran now so wunderlich into the cross and crosswise, daselbst a strange border with various corners and angles is until the today's day.

The Altenberger church

Above the Dorfe old person mountain in the Thueringer forest lies on a high mountain merrily between trees the Kirchlein of the place, the Johanneskirche mentioned. Because of the cumbersome way there, particularly in the winter with ice and if corpses or children to the baptism to be up-carried were, wanted, after the legend, which Altenberger the church break off and put up down in the Dorfe, but they were not been able it. Because which they had today cleared away and had down-brought in the valley, they found on the other morning again in its place in due order above on the chapel, thus that they had to be away from their project.
      This church donated the holy Bonifatius and on that mountains repeatedly geprediget. Once, when he did it there in the open air, it happened that a large quantity of raben, Dohlen and crows came here-flown and such a Gekraechz and shouting began that the words of the holy Bonifatius could not do no more are understood. There he asked God that he into this area to come never more permit such birds. Its please was granted to it, and one never saw her after again to this places.

The three Telle

In the wild mountain area of Switzerland around the Waldstaettersee a rock gap is after the faith of the people and hirten, where the three Befreier of the country, which sleep three Tellen mentioned. They are done with their age-old clothes and will again up-arise and will saving come out, when the time of the emergency comes for the native country. But the entrance of the cave is only for the lucky Finder.
      A Hirtenjunge told the following to a traveler: Its father, looking for a run goat in the rock ravines, came into this cave, and directly, as he noticed that the three men sleeping in it are the three Tellen, straightened up at one time the old actual Tell and asked: "which time ist's in the world?" and on the hirten frightened answer: "it is highly spoken at noon",: "it is not yet at the time that we come and are", on it again fallen asleep. The father, when he with its associate to wake the Telle for the emergency of the native country afterwards often the cave searched, could nevertheless never regain her.

The mountain male

In Switzerland it has many narrations of mountain spirit, not only on the Gebirg alone, in the people but also down at the Belp, to Gelterfingen and Ruemlingen in the Bernese country. These mountain men are also hirten, but not goats, sheep and cows are their cattle, but gemsen, and from the Gemsenmilch make they for cheese, which grows so for a long time again and becomes whole, if one angebissen her begun to cut or, to one them incautiously completely and at one time, without leaving remainders, verzehrt. The dwarf people lives quietly and peacefully in the internal rock gaps and works emsig away, rarely appears it humans, or their feature means a wrong and a misfortune; except if one it on the mats to dance sees, which indicates a gesegnetes year. If erred lambs often lead it the people to house, and poor children, who go to wood, find occasionally cups with milk in the forest, also to Koerbchen with berries, which put them the dwarves.
      Vorzeiten plowed once a hirt with its farmhand the field, there saw one beside from the cliff steaming and smoke. "there and simmer the dwarves" cook, spoke the farmhand, "and we suffer heavy hunger, would have we nevertheless also a Schuesselchen fully of it." And like it plow third turned around, see, there lay in the furrow a white sheet spread, and whereupon a plate with freshbaked cake stood, and they ate gratefully and became full. In the evening when home going plate and measurer were disappeared, only the table cloth lay still there, which the farmer took also to house.

The dwarf holes

At the resin in the county high stone, then between Elbingerode and the carrot country one finds above in the rock caves at the cover round and other openings, which the common man of dwarf holes calls, where before age leader places the dwarves and out is to have risen. These dwarves produced for Elbingerode all quality for the inhabitants. If a wedding in the city fell forwards, then parents went or Anverwandten of the engaged ones after such caves and required of the dwarves messingne and copper boilers, eherne pots, zinnerne dishes and plates and other necessary kitchen table-ware more. Whereupon they stepped a little downward, and directly after the dwarves put the demanded things before the entrance of the cave. The people carried it forward then away and to house; when however the wedding past was, they brought everything back to same placing, set to the gratitude something meal thereby.

The three young far from from the lake

To Epfenbach with Sinsheim into the spin room of the village since the people memory three beautiful, white-dressed virgins stepped each evening. They brought always new songs and ways also, knew pretty fairy tales and plays, also their Rocken and spindles had somewhat own, and no Spinnerin could turn the thread so finely and swiftly. But with the impact eleven they rose, packed together their Rocken and could by no request one instant be kept longer. One did not know, from where they came, still where it went; one called it only: young far from from the lake or the sisters from the lake. Bur saw it gladly and fell in love with it, zuallermeist the schulmeisters son. That could not become full to hear and speak with them it, and unfortunately it did not do anything to him than that they applied each evening already so early. There it purged once on the thoughts and reset the village clock one hour, and in the evening in the constant discussion and joke no humans noticed the delay of the hour. And as the bell eleven, it struck however twelve already actually was, rose the three young far from, folded up the Rocken and went away. The following mornings went past some people at the lake; there they heard wows and saw three bloody places above on the surface. Since the time the sisters came never more to the room. The schulmeisters son lived off and died briefly after.

The Hackelnberg dream

Hans's von Hackelnberg were braunschweigischer upper hunter master and an enormous Waidmann. One night had it on that Harzburg a heavy dream; it deuchte it, as if it fought with a terrible Eber, which defeated it last after long controversy. It did not know this dream at all from the thoughts again loose will. Some after it pushed time in the Vorharz really on a Eber, in the dream the seen similarly. It attacked it; the fight remained for a long time undecided, finally won Hans and stretched the enemy to soil down. Gladly, when he saw him in such a way to his feet, it pushed with the foot after the terrible hauern of the Ebers and proclaimed: "you are not to do it to me yet!" But it had pushed by such force that the sharp tooth penetrated the boot and wounded the foot. Only Hackelnberg of the wound respected not and continued the hunt. With its Zurueckkunft however the foot was in such a way swollen that the boot had to be separated from the leg. It hurried after Wolfenbuettel back; the vibration of the car worked so harmful the fact that it reached soon the hospital with exact emergency to Wuelperode nearby horn castle and daselbst died. On its grave lies a stone, which presents a geharnischten knight on a maultier.