Legendary Creatures of Germany - Documentary

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  @Fireoflearning · 1 year ago · pinned

  You may enjoy the music in this video more by turning off YouTube's "Stable Volume" setting, located by pressing the cog symbol (The circle with notches around it) in the video options.

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  @crazyavocado7119 · 1 year ago

  you missed the most terrifying one - the Finanzamt...

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  @satan6330 · 1 year ago

  I'm not sure if you've heard of the following creature, but it's been said to haunt some parts of Germany, especially Bavaria, its name is Markus Söder but beware of looking it up, you might not be prepared for what you see.

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  @speev9550 · 1 year ago

  As a german, i can confirm we have to deal with most of these on a daily basis

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  @vorgeschichte713 · 1 year ago

  You missed the infamous 'Passierschein A38'.

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  @Argacyan · 1 year ago

  The term "Wiedergänger" can also be translated as "revenant" for simplicity.

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  @genosho5574 · 1 year ago

  German Mortician here, it's funny to me that Nachzehrer are described to hold one of their thumbs in the grave since it's quite the common practice in our field to make one hand hold the others thumb to make sure they stay in a rested position atop the stomach.

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  @Jestnarr · 1 year ago

  Until this video, as a german, i knew little of these entities. But i recognized atleast two "Wiedergänger" and "die Klagemutter". The latter is something my grandma told me about in a way. Since everytime we heard an owl outside their house at night, she said "Heard that? I'll be dead soon." then she laughed, always gave me the creeps when i was a child.

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  @dusexmachina · 1 year ago

  In my home village in Swabia the young men would go out in groups on christmas eve to banish ghosts. We would wear white robes, black masks with hemp beards, high pointy paper hats and large leather belts with heavy bells attached around the shoulder and run through the village screaming. We also had flour sacks in which we collected candy and money for charity. It always felt so eerie and important. The older folks would often say that they felt at ease with the sound of the bells and screaming in the distance

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  @PynkWytchBytch · 1 year ago

  Guess this place has some Grimm folklore <br><br>I’ll see myself out

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  @lugenkresse5825 · 1 year ago (edited)

  In my region (Thuringia) we call the Tatzelwurm the Lindwurm. It was said to have lived in my neighbouring village of Lindig, and demanded a virgin sacrifice once every fall. That was until a girl named Margarethe was supposed to be fed to the Lindwurm. She grabbed a spear from one of her guards and stabbed it through the mouth right into the throat, killing it (the Lindwurm is a species of dragon, and a dragon&apos;s heart is in the throat, duh!). She was henceforth known as Saint Margarethe and can still be seen on the coat of arms of the city of Kahla. A nearby city called Jena copied the legend and changed Margarethe to the Archangel Micheal, which I still think is kind of lame and defeats the purpose of the legend. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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  @THATGuy5654 · 1 year ago

  So you get on a weird horse, it takes off on a crazy, high speed sprint around the countryside, you quickly realize you can&apos;t fall off, and then it stops, throwing you into some water.<br>Dude, I would pay good money for that experience.

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