German folklore
Rhine fairy tales
German folklore encompasses the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, and oral literature of German-speaking peoples.
It includes fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, myths of forest spirits and witches, seasonal traditions like Krampus at Christmas, and regional legends of haunted castles and enchanted landscapes.
The story has roots in German folklore.
- KrampusFolklore figure punishing misbehavior
- LoreleiRhine rock or maiden
- BarbarossaRed-bearded emperor's epithet
- Snow WhiteGrimm's fairest maiden
- Sleeping BeautyCurse-bound dormant royal
nixie · Wild Hunt · Hansel and Gretel · Rumpelstiltskin · enchanted forest · Little Red Riding Hood · Faust · devil's pact · Siegfried · fairy tales · Brothers Grimm · Poltergeist · Romanticism · Black Forest · Grimm · myth · huntsman · troll
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- Germanic cultureBach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn
- Germanic LiteratureBeowulf, Faust, sagas, Norse mythology, Icelandic sagas
- German RomanticismHoffmann, blue flower, Brothers Grimm, creative imagination, lieder
- GermanyBerlin, Munich, Hamburg, Germany, Cologne
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
German folkloreJapanese folklore
Traditional myths of Japan
Chinese folklore · African folklore · Norse mythology · Celtic folklore · Greek mythology
German folkloreclassical canon
Authoritative body of works
court poetry · epic poetry · scientific literature · legal documents · modernist literature
German folkloremodern science
Post-Enlightenment systematic investigation
empirical research · contemporary history · documentary evidence · statistical analysis · evidence-based medicine