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. Another set of tales is Lurkers at the Threshold: 100 Ghost Tales from German Folklore B09T3PHYGK.

• Wood Women and Quergel
• Wood People in the Schlee Forest
• The Hounded Forest Woman
• A Wood Woman Mourns Her Husband
• The Moss Woman’s Hindquarter
• The Hollowed-Out Bread
• Caraway Bread
• The Rejected Cake
• The Shepherd and the Forest Woman
• Little Moss Men on the Kahleberg Mountain Near Altenberg
• The Possessed People at Spandau
• The Devil as Colorful Ribbon
• The Howling Mother
• The Trudenfuß
• The Milk Stone, the Blood Stone, and the Trude Stone
• The Wildg’fahr near Vöran
• The Wildg’fahr Abducts a Child
• The Wildg’fahr Cave at Sonnenberg Mountain
• The Wildg’fahr
• The Implanted Hare’s Heart
• The Town Hall Cat
• The Huntsman and the Devil
• The Stupid Devil
• The Mages of the Steineberg Ley
• How the Mayor Speaks Against the Flames So That No More Than One House Burns Down
• The Hunting Lodge at the Katzbach River
• The Venus Mountain near Uffhausen
• Of the Old Franconian Idol Lollus
• The Käthelstein Rock near Annaberg
• The Silver Dwarven Bell
• 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 Captured Water Man near Wartha
• The Fiery Men of Uckerrath
• The Glowing Man at the Zehntscheune
• The Glowing Man in the Cherry Tree
• The Fiery Man of Gräfrath
• The Freischütz (of Glücksburg)
• The Freischütz (from Marne)
• The Devil’s Grandmother
• The Sunken Castle Burggraben near Immigrath
• The Accursed Castle of Gammelin
• The Legend of the Giants’ Stone
• The Neckar Sacrifice in the St. John’s Night
• The Black Poodle in the Haslen Forest
• Ghostly Poodle
• The “Lordly Dog”
• The Incident at the Ruhkäppele Chapel
• The Persecution of Jews in Constance
• About the History of the Persecution of Jews in Constance [according to Schnetzler]
• The Persecution of Jews in Überlingen
• Jews Defying Forced Conversion
• The Dragon - A Tale from Lanz
• The Dragon Servant
• The Werewolf
• The Böxenwulf
• The Maid of Wildenloh
• Hiddensee Island
• The Witches in Wilster
• Pilatusstadt
• 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