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I did not expect this many theories as to where the spirit Rübezahl comes from.

So this Nixe was a pagan girl. Unusual, usually an origin of a Nixe is never stated.

So this version of the wild hunter is a guy who murdered someone, not a cursed hunter as usual.

Intersting, the story of this heraldic sign takes plays in muslim spain apparently. I did not expect that. They tend to be much more local.

So in the end they managed to rescue the wizard from the devils afterall. Makes sense as he saved them from the Turcs.

naturally he was punished after even his pious wife could not stop him.

Hm, was that female dwarf with the magic pearls a Kobold? She did claim to be the house spirit. And boy that witch in this other story is way more dangerous than usual in folktales, even after her death she continued to terrorize the area and after digging her out twice they had to burn her, because she had removed the stake they had staked her corpse with.

This hitting the rooster sounds like a practice from the Spreewald region, of course there they used a dead rooster now due to animal protection laws.

So this saint used his cloak as a ship, that is certainly useful.

A türkish ship under a fiery rainbow and above fiery wheels. That is really unusual.

So these people were called donkey eaters because there was a gold mine called the golden donkey.

Really strange how sometimes evil people keep haunting the area and in other cases they are punished. It is all over the place,

Fish as omen of the death of a person. That is new.

Hm, when this story said whine gods at the rhine I expected some gods or at least statues, but it really was only a temple. And the next story about the seven sisters sounds a lot like one of the stories by the Brother's Grimm.

What? Done already? And where was the stuff to Odin as a queer figure that he mentioned before and claimed to talk about? Why only talk about mostly dangerous neopaganism and their idiotic christian hatred (but not the similar about progressives) and only shortly how some references to Odin are not a problem?

After all this information about Odin stuff, real and fake, among völkisch academics and racists, it is suprising that Hitler himself had no interest in it any further than the Wagner opera and it is due to his anti-academic feelings.

His criticism of Grimm and his Deutsche Mythologie sounds exactly like mine when I see people drawing the wildest connection to the norse gods.

Oh, so this obsession with Odin and the Norse was primarily in the more educated strata of society. That would explain why the norse gods were such a big thing among authors but not among the folktales that I have seen so far, there they are incredibly rare. Even the fake Ostara was more present.

Now the Edda and norse mythology is equated with celtic culture. Oh boy, I am not surprised but I did not expect it either.

So Faroese ballads showed Odin rather as a demon. That fits.

Oh boy, first this hype for India as the origin of all civilization and now equating Odin somehow with Buddha... well... not THAT surprising to be honest.

I really have to keep in mind how these protestants considered the Edda to have remnants of the true christian faith and that was destroyed the catholic church and so had to be better than the catholics. That anti-catholic strain is still very present today.

And connecting Atlantis with Scandinavia etc? Hm, that would explain a few things later during Nazi times.

Odin as attractive? That change was not something I expected to see, even in christian times. I wonder whether that is due to the desire to connect Odin with some mythical forefathers that he describes here.

How does he know that this bavarian "Waudlgaul" has anything to do with Wodan/Odin? It is pretty far removed from the norse or the continental germanics. Wouldn't it be more likely, like he points out in another example, that what some literati wrote filtered down to the masses? And sure as hell, as he points out, none of this can be used to "reconstruct" the pre-christian believes.

These later examples of Odin from christian times really don't seem like Odin at all but rather like the devil who was simply called Odin. Especially the deals and how and where you summon him to get rich.

I am not surprised to read that christian missionaries were more likely to encounter Thor than Odin.

He makes a good point in that there is not match in common between sami shaminism and the Edda and Odin is also no one who learns his powers and knowlegde to help his community, he does it for personal gain, and so he cannot be a shaman. And I am sure I know some people who use this very broad definition of shamanism that he talks about.

So Berserkers were not nearly as present in the old norse texts as their modern day popularity suggests.

I had completely forgotten that the prologe of Snoris Edda states that the Aesir came from Troy, and apparently the Ynglinga Saga portrays them as humans with magic powers. And considered how Odin practices magic considered unmanly and feminine and he is also a shapeshifter, I really wonder why Queer activists use Loki today and not Odin.