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Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface to attune to the Quest ……………………………………………………… 1 õ …………………………………………… 5 Pond and Mountain …………………………………………………………… 18 The Frau-Holle-Chair at the “Morgengabe” …………………………………… 21 The Frau-Holle-Stones ………………………………………………………… 22 The Hilgershausen Cave (or Holle-Cliff) and the Witch-pond ………………… 23 The Frau Holle-Circuit in Hessisch-Lichtenau ………………………………… 27 The Frau-Holle-Fountain in Eschwege ………………………………………… 29 The Frau-Harke-Circuit of Myths ……………………………………………… 30 Frau Holle's Dream-Loop ……………………………………………………… 32 Frau-Holle-Hiking Trail ………………………………………………………… 34 …………………………………… 35 Black Elder (German: Schwarze Holunder) …………………………………… 35 Field Maple (German: Maßholder) …………………………………………… 39 Juniper (German: Wacholder) ………………………………………………… 41 The Linden Tree (German: Linde) …………………………………………… 42 Lady's Bedstraw (German: Liebfrauenstroh) ………………………………… 45 The Apple Tree ………………………………………………………………… 48 Mandrake (German: Alraune) ………………………………………………… 49 The Holly (German: Stechpalme) ……………………………………………… 53 The Parnassus (German: Herzblatt) …………………………………………… 55 Smoking – Incense ……………………………………………………………… 57 Drying and Crushing/Grinding ……………………………………………… 58 Incense of Frau Holle or Percht …………………………………………… 59 Nine Woods ………………………………………………………………… 61 ………………………………… 65 Mother Holle …………………………………………………………………… 66 Goldmary and Pitchmary ……………………………………………………… 70 Little Golddaughter and Pitchmaid …………………………………………… 72 The Huldrsaga (Denmark) ……………………………………………………… 77 The faithful Nettle Spinner …………………………………………………… 79 The Gift of Frau Holle ………………………………………………………… 82 The old Frick …………………………………………………………………… 85 Goldig Betheli and Harzebabi ………………………………………………… 87 Macedonia 1: The Girl and the Twelve Months ……………………………… 89 Macedonia 2: Stepmother and Stepdaughter …………………………………… 92 The Power of the Fairytale Road ……………………………………………… 96 The different types of epic texts …………………………………………… 96 Psychology and fairy tales ………………………………………………… 98 The Holle fairy tale analyzed ……………………………………………… 99 ……………………………… 101 Jacob Grimm …………………………………………………………………… 103 Frau-Holle-Pond …………………………………………………………… 103 Frau Holle and the faithful Eckhart ……………………………………… 104 Frau Holle and the Farmer ………………………………………………… 104 Kuhn and Schwartz …………………………………………………………… 105 About Fru Gode …………………………………………………………… 105 About the Old Frick ………………………………………………………… 106 About Frau Hulle with the Goldpods and Frau Holle in the Kyffhäuser ……106 The Bear of Abterode, also called the Death-Stone …………………………… 108 The Shepherd of Kröllwitz …………………………………………………… 109 Frau Holle shakes off her beds ………………………………………………… 109 Frau Holle and the Hollen …………………………………………………… 111 The White Lady of Haldenstein ……………………………………………… 112 Frau Hulle and Crooked Jacob ………………………………………………… 112 Queen Holle in the Kyffhäuser ………………………………………………… 114 The minstrel on the Kyffhäuser ………………………………………………… 115 The Night Spinner ……………………………………………………………… 116 Holle’s Eve …………………………………………………………………… 118 The Lady Hulle at Würzburg …………………………………………………… 119 Lower Franconia ……………………………………………………………… 119 Frau Hulli (Lady Hulli) ……………………………………………………… 119 The Frau-Hulli-Stone ……………………………………………………… 121 Old Clare …………………………………………………………………… 122 The drunken man from Röttbach …………………………………………… 123 With Frau Hulda in the Forest ……………………………………………… 123 The White Horse of Frau Hulde …………………………………………… 124 Tyrol …………………………………………………………………………… 125 Queen Hulda ………………………………………………………………… 125 Berchta caused Blindness …………………………………………………… 125 Berchta and the Wild Man ………………………………………………… 126 The Dark Valley …………………………………………………………… 126 The Kitten and the Miracle Ball of Wool ……………………………………… 127 Granny Evergreen ……………………………………………………………… 128 The ‘White Horse Woman’ from Baunatal …………………………………… 129 The Miner and his Wife ……………………………………………………… 131 Martha from the Meissner Mountain – A Pseudo-Folktale …………………… 133 Frau Holle as a matchmaker in Andreasberg ………………………………… 135 Frau Holle and the Kuckholz-Cliffs …………………………………………… 136 Frau Harke ……………………………………………………………………… 137 How the Thuringians got their Dumplings …………………………………… 137 The Blown-out Light ………………………………………………………… 139 The Juglet of Tears ……………………………………………………………… 141 Frau Perchta as a Begger-Woman at Radstadt ………………………………… 141 The hardworking Liese ………………………………………………………… 142 Queen of the Heimchen ………………………………………………………… 144 Perchtha, The Queen of the Ghost Children …………………………………… 145 Frau Berchta and the Children ………………………………………………… 146 A Berchta tale from Alpach …………………………………………………… 147 Frau Wolle – Frau Wulle ……………………………………………………… 147 The Hollen at Waldeck ………………………………………………………… 148 The Holle-Pond – A Pseudo-Folktale ………………………………………… 149 The Hertha-Wellspring at Binz and Prora ……………………………………… 152 Frau Frick‘s Doggy …………………………………………………………… 152 The Brunhild Stone …………………………………………………………… 154 Upper Hesse …………………………………………………………………… 154 The Frau Holle Hole at Frischborn ………………………………………… 154 Christ Child's Cradle …………………………………………………………155 The Wild Holle Hole at Seibertenrod ……………………………………… 155 The ‘Wild Woman Well’ at Einartshausen ………………………………… 156 The Wild Wife at Birstein …………………………………………………… 156 The ‘Wild Woman House’ in the Vogelsberg …………………………………… 156 The Woodruff ………………………………………………………………… 157 The Elderberry Miracle …………………………………………………………169 Frau Hilde‘s Snow ……………………………………………………………… 160 Fruit, Milk and Cake …………………………………………………………… 160 A Frau Holle Monument ……………………………………………………… 161 The Luttermaiden and Frau Holle at the Hausberg …………………………… 161 The pot of gold under the Elder ……………………………………………… 162 The Treasure in the Alcove …………………………………………………… 163 Lignite at the Hirschberg ……………………………………………………… 165 Karl Lyncker …………………………………………………………………… 166 Bells ringing and mysterious Rushing ……………………………………… 166 Frau Holle shifts a rock …………………………………………………… 168 Frau Holle has a Stone in her Shoe ………………………………………… 168 Spessart ………………………………………………………………………… 168 Frau Holle and the Farmer‘s Wife from Schweinheim ………………………168 The Sack of Flour …………………………………………………………… 169 The Plowshare Stone ……………………………………………………… 170 Frau Holle's High Pulpit ……………………………………………………… 173 The Elder-bush of Himmighofen ……………………………………………… 175 The Lady Venus ………………………………………………………………… 175 Baba Yaga ……………………………………………………………………… 180 Baba Yaga’s Fire ……………………………………………………………… 181 õ! …………………… 183 Jacob Grimm …………………………………………………………………… 184 Frau Holle wanders through the land …………………………………… 184 The Frau Hollen Bath …………………………………………………… 184 The Holzfrala ………………………………………………………………… 186 Vogelsberg ……………………………………………………………………… 187 At the wild “Weibsbild“ …………………………………………………… 188 The Frau-Holle-Hole at Frischborn ………………………………………… 189 The Hullewaatsch ……………………………………………………………… 190 Frau Holle and the Wild Hunt ………………………………………………… 191 Frau Holle and her Heimchen ………………………………………………… 192 The Night of the Hullefra in Schnett …………………………………………… 193 Frau Holle‘s Christmas ………………………………………………………… 194 Holle und the Christmas Child ………………………………………………… 196 The Frau-Holle-Pond …………………………………………………………… 197 The Carnival-Walkers from Germerode ……………………………………… 198 More Traces in Hesse ……………………………………………………………199 Franconia ……………………………………………………………………… 200 Bischofsheim an der Rhön ……………………………………………………… 201 Lower Saxony ………………………………………………………………… 202 The Harz ……………………………………………………………………… 203 Frau Harke …………………………………………………………………… 206 Laurentius Knappert …………………………………………………………… 208 The White Lady …………………………………………………………… 209 Fairy – Forest Lady ………………………………………………………… 209 Foretelling – Prophesy ……………………………………………………… 210 Flax – Spinning ……………………………………………………………… 210 Growth – Abundance ……………………………………………………… 211 Eggs ………………………………………………………………………… 212 Death Messenger ……………………………………………………………… 215 Perchta ………………………………………………………………………… 215 Perchten ………………………………………………………………………… 218 Markt Allhau ………………………………………………………………… 218 Zillertal and Tennegau ……………………………………………………… 220 Upper Styria ………………………………………………………………… 220 Berchtel Milk ……………………………………………………………… 221 Upper Carinthia …………………………………………………………… 221 Salzburg (state) ……………………………………………………………… 222 South Tyrol ………………………………………………………………… 224 Kirchseeon ………………………………………………………………… 225 Demonization ………………………………………………………………… 227 Trudberchta …………………………………………………………………… 228 As far as the Netherlands ……………………………………………………… 228 From anonymous sources ……………………………………………………… 231 Happy Celebrations with Frau Holle …………………………………………… 233 Lucia – Holle – Perchta ………………………………………………………… 235 From the confession of Diel Breull …………………………………………… 237 Boundary stones …………………………………………………………………238 " ………………………………………… 239 Rudolf Löwenstein: Frau Holle shakes her beds ……………………………… 239 Frau Holle is carrying the water ……………………………………………… 241 Old Saxon Rhyme: Frau Holle, Frau Holle …………………………………… 242 Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: ………………………………………… 242 …………………………………… 242 Julius Sturm: Frau Holle ……………………………………………………… 245 Frau Holle Song ……………………………………………………………… 245 The Stempe (The Story of the Stempe) ………………………………………… 247 Daz iuch Berhte niht trete (So that Berchta will not kick you) ………………… 248 August Kopisch: The Crossing of the Little Folk ……………………………… 251 Hunting Song ………………………………………………………………… 254 In the Hörselberg ……………………………………………………………… 254 A Riddle ………………………………………………………………………… 255 The Elder Bush ………………………………………………………………… 255 Hans Hoffmann: Frau Holle …………………………………………………… 257 Felix (and Therese) Dahn: Of Saint Nicholas Day …………………………… 258 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Faithful Eckart …………………………… 261 Hermann von Lingg: Tannhäuser ……………………………………………… 264 Richard Wagner ………………………………………………………………… 266 1. 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