"Tod" ("Death") as an anthropomorphic personality shows up occasionally in German folk tales.'nRarer is the appearance of "Tödin" ("She-Death") - Death's _wife_.
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"Tod" ("Death") as an anthropomorphic personality shows up occasionally in German folk tales.
Rarer is the appearance of "Tödin" ("She-Death") - Death's _wife_. So far, I have only encountered her in certain Austrian tales - but I love them.
#folklore
https://archive.org/details/grabersagenauskaernten/page/n235/mode/2up -
"Tod" ("Death") as an anthropomorphic personality shows up occasionally in German folk tales.
Rarer is the appearance of "Tödin" ("She-Death") - Death's _wife_. So far, I have only encountered her in certain Austrian tales - but I love them.
#folklore
https://archive.org/details/grabersagenauskaernten/page/n235/mode/2up@juergen_hubert That's one of the main differences between Germanic and Slavic (or at least Polish) folklore. Our personification of Death is always female. She is also commonly referred to as a "godmother," as if to indicate that she accompanies you from the beginning of your life.
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@juergen_hubert That's one of the main differences between Germanic and Slavic (or at least Polish) folklore. Our personification of Death is always female. She is also commonly referred to as a "godmother," as if to indicate that she accompanies you from the beginning of your life.
Interesting! Maybe this is a Slavic import - I am reading a book about folk tales from Carinthia, which does have a Slovenic minority.
