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• @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 2026-10-14 06:20

  @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social @doktrock@toad.social The German folk tales I translate are often tied to highly specific locations. A specific house, rock formation, lake, ruined castle, and so on and so forth - and frequently local history is tied into the tale as well. That's why I think such local legends are more interesting than fairy tales, because you can actually visit the places where they allegedly took place. Of course, the same narrative tropes are often recycled elsewhere with a different regional context. But that doesn't make such local legends any less interesting - the folk storytellers tried to turn their own hone region into a magical landscape. And that's the kind of thing I hope to see in tales from other countries. https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page

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