Wandering Adventure Party

Many spirits need the assistance of a human midwife if their own wives go into childbirth.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Man_of_the_Ocean_Ekke_Nekkepenn

@Ardeija That's useful context that I hadn't been aware of - thanks!

The miracle worker Doctor Theophrast of Hohenheim - also known as Paracelsus - had a fantastic life. It is thus not surprising that his birth was equally spectacular.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Of_Doctor_Theophrast%27s_Origin

If you use magic to ease the pain of childbirth, the child is in danger of becoming a night hag later in life.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Witches_and_Trudes

@ljwrites The latter part is pretty common in German folk tales featuring exorcism - the evil spirits often seem to know the past sins of exorcists, and will use that knowledge to claim that they have no power over them.Either the exorcist can explain the sin away due to extenuating circumstances, or they need to fetch a purer person to do the job.

If a child is born with a caul over their head, they are doomed to rise as vampires after death.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_or_Unhuer

The Devil is always ready to punish sinners with fire.#MythologyMondayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fire-Spraying_Cherries

Some Underworlds seem pleasant at first glance. But they are often illusions hiding a fiery hellscape.#MythologyMondayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Goatherd_Boy_in_the_Illgraben

In German folklore, hellmouths would sometimes open up on assorted hillsides.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Cart_Drivers_Witness_a_Mirage

@dimllychlyngarw My full notes go into my books and Patreon pages. I put just the translations on my wiki.

@Joy_intl I'll take a look. Mostly I am using these sources:https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Sagen#Elsa%C3%9F-Lothringen

Once, a dragon manifested above Untersberg Mountain in the shape of a fiery poodle....I have to admit, I have no idea what _that_ was all about.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg

Quite a few spirits from German folklore manifest as flaming poles. I have even discovered that such things appear in Italian folklore as well!#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Alfhausen_and_the_Alkenkrug_Pub

In German folklore, fires burning outdoors without visible cause were often hidden treasures!#MythologyMondayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Of_the_Burning_Money_in_Grassau

@mythologymonday @TarkabarkaHolgy @curiousordinary.bsky.social @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @pj-richards.bsky.social @AnnaJunePage @nataljastgermain.bsky.social @JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social @beefolklore.bsky.social @FolkloreFun @psychescinema.bsky.social @PatFurstenberg Ooh, hellscapes have fire and warmth!

The foster son of a farmer had to kill a dragon in order to win the woman he loved.#MythologyMonday #Austria #folktale #folklore #dragon https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Dragon_of_R%C3%B6thelstein

In the year 1605, a fostered girl in Löwenburg was possessed by the Devil.#MythologyMonday #Poland #folktale #folklore #Devil https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Possessed_Girl_at_L%C3%B6wenberg

A strange, bearded figure haunts the Dhünn river valley.#MythologyMondayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Squinter_in_Schlebusch

While Tolkien's dwarves are not necessarily representative of their folkloric predecessors, it _is_ true that they were often portrayed as bearded.#MythologyMondayhttps://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Silver_Fir_Cone

When three miners were imprisoned within Kuttenberg Mountain for seven years, their beards reached such a spectacular length that their own wives no longer recognized them.#MythologyMonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Three_Miners_in_Kuttenberg_Mountain