As his bemused colleagues soon realize, Belsnickel is no figment of Dwight’s overactive imagination, but a real figure from German folklore. Indeed, Belsnickel has been celebrated by the ...

German folklore held that storks found babies ("stork stones") in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or in their beaks. The babies would then be given to ...

In 1960, Elvis Presley is the most famous pop star in the world. In one of his films, he sings a German folk song that goes on to sell over a million copies. But perhaps with good reason since the ...

In German folklore, the male stag beetle was associated with Thor, the god of thunder, lightning, and burning embers. People believed that Thor, with the help of the stag beetle, set fire to thatched ...

Aubrie Blauvelt holds a BA in both German and Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University all the way in Bloomington, Indiana. In her time in Indiana, she focused primarily on storytelling in ...

R esearchers in Poland have published a cartometric map that shows the distribution of supernatural beings from Polish folklore along the Polish-German border. The map is beautifully designed to ...

Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl, both were outstanding German linguists, scholars, academics, cultural researchers, and lexicographers. One of their core missions was to gather and publish fairy ...

Holly is a graduate medical biochemist with an enthusiasm for making science interesting, fun and accessible.