Jürgen Hubert

Jürgen Hubert creates Public Domain translations of classic, rarely translated German folklore tales supported by patronage. The originals are Public Domain and Hubert's new translations are placed in CC0 / Public Domain, and are mirrored here with permission. Hubert also includes exclusive notes and commentary for Patrons.

The first 155 original translations from Hubert's project, with extensive commentary and footnotes on the historical and cultural context, are also available in book form as Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles: Commentaries on German Folklore 9783982217116 B08CL2HS28

• The Construction of the Cathedral at Aachen and the Lousberg Hill
• Venetians on Blocksberg Mountain
• The Best Religion
• The Monk on Helgoland Island
• The Ghosts Haunting the New Mill at the Innerste River
• The Man with the Boundary Stone
• The Billy Goat of Büntlitten
• The Man Who Moved The Boundary Stones
• The Farmer Who Had Moved The Boundary Stones
• The Unrighteous Plowman
• Walpurgis Night
• A Woman Marries a Dwarf
• The Dwarf Türliwirli
• The Farmer and the Forest Maiden
• The God-Fearing Carter
• Faithful Lights or Errant Lights
• The Ghostly Light
• Muggensturm
• Dilsberg
• The Knight of Land Harm
• The Banished Paper Miller’s Wife
• The Haunt on the Harth
• Hans von Hackelberg
• Hackelnberg
• The Ridge Trains
• The Cart Drivers Witness a Mirage
• The Fire Mountain
• Alfhausen and the Alkenkrug Pub
• The Devil and the Teacher
• The Devil Fetches a Lovesick Cleric at Freiberg
• …
• The Störtebeker Saga
• Claus Störtebeck and Michel Gädeke
• The back-squatting spirit
• The back-squatting woman
• Vineta
• Here Be Dragons
• The Lindwurm at Murnau
• The Tale of the Lindwurms
• The Three Mojes of Aislingen
• The Three Maidens at Deisenhofen
• The Castle Hill at Wolfratshausen
• The Kirnberg at Berchtesgaden
• The Ship of Hell
• Barbarossa in the Untersberg
• The Little Men of the Untersberg
• The Half-White, Half-Black Maiden of the Untersberg
• The Wild Women of the Untersberg
• The Three Maidens at Leutstetten
• The Wild Huntsman in the Oderwiesenwald Forest
• The Smith of Mitterbach
• The Drudes
• The Shower Maidens