1. You may enjoy the music in this video more by turning off RUclips's "Stable Volume" setting, located by pressing the cog symbol (The circle with notches around it) in the video options. 2. The names of the entities are pronounced first like they would be in German, then they are anglicized so that they flow more easily and can be incorporated into English. 3. I think a lot of confusion is coming from the word "nachzehrer". As can be seen in the sources we cited for this section, one of which was in German, I am not saying "nacht" (night) or "sehrer" (watcher (incorrect)). "Nach" (after) "Zehren" (to feed/drain).
@JohannesSkolaude All sources are listed in the Patreon link in the description. (You don’t have to be a member of Patreon to see them). The flashing numbers on the screen throughout the video reference the specific sources we used for each area. Edit: Actually, I even mentioned the main source we used for the nachzehrer in the video along with the footnote.
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.
ah yes, the worst of them all.Very few however know the origins of this garstly creature.They are created when an fat idiot dies of drinking to much beer and gets buried in a marihuanna field.Henceforth, he will haunt the living by blabbering drunk BS and hunting down potsmokers as he blames them for his curse.
I heard of that cryptid. Anybody who watches TV at the wrong time will see it crawl out of the screen to follow its victim around and demand constant attention.
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.
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
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.
Few open casket burials here. My grandmother wanted open casket and the undertaker hadn't done it for like 25 years (the corpse didnt have a single wrinkle - the good man didnt hold back on the sauce 👌🏻@@dbzgal04
Ok imma add one real quick, when i was 4 years old growing up in the bavarian forest i saw a giant mole that dug a tunnel that was big enough for me to crawl in. I know it was not real and must have been a dream, but it felt so realistic that it stuck in my head ever since.
Not all dreams are the same. Sometimes we actually go "places" in dream time. I know what you mean. When I was little, I either had a dream, or it was IRL, where my friend and I took out umbrellas during strong winds and we flew a few feet off the ground for maybe 60 -80 feet. It still feels so real...
One of the most frightening thing I've ever done was riding on the back of a motorbike through the Black Forest in the middle of the night. The whole time I felt like I was going to be ripped right off the back of the bike by some predator, but I knew there are no predators left. I couldn't see anything and almost upset the bike attempting to look behind me/us. It's crazy weird because I used to be the biggest adrenaline junkie. Cliff jumping, spelunking, mountain climbing with pack, whatever, my favorite thing is White Water Rafting, so I am kind of fearless, but I felt something in the thick darkness in the Black Forest that night, and it scared the crap out of me.
Thanks for sharing! That is interesting. I agree, it probably is primal instinct. The animal inside you remembers. Or, you know, could have been a Nachtzehrer checking you out. Lucky you weren't one of it's relatives :D
One important figure you forgot to mention is the elusive "Dragonlord", said to have once lead the various dragon and wyvern species that live in germany, until his base of operations, the "Drachenschanze" mysteriously vanished.
So you get on a weird horse, it takes off on a crazy, high speed sprint around the countryside, you quickly realize you can't fall off, and then it stops, throwing you into some water. Dude, I would pay good money for that experience.
Well, come to Germany. Our horses are .... delightful. Especially at night under the moonlight in a lonely forest. (Okay, well, hm, there hardly seem to be any lonely forests around these days. Damn, gotta work on my sales pitch...)
But that's not the whole story. sometimes it runs under a gate and starts to grow while you're still on your back. and it keeps growing until you get squashed.
We have a similar entity here in Iceland and we call it the Nykur and it's an evil spirit of a beautiful horse that lives in our lakes and ponds. It's hoofs are backwards and it's fur is always wet. If you get on to ride the Nykur you will never get off and it will ride into the water with you on it's back where you would drown and your spirit will take the form of a Nykur. You can become it's master but I don't remember how you do it.
German here. Heard of the nachtkrapp here the first time - thank you, it's a interesting myth. The saying, that you shouldnt stare a raven in the eyes because of soul stealing was known to me. But the crows and few ravens I met were friendly natured. Wouldnt let them near my cat, because they can get evil in their games.(cats too)
Immer wieder überraschend wie man selbst als Deutscher was neues in solchen Videos lernt. Hab Aufhocker z.B. vorher auch nur unter der Bezeichnung Buckelgeist gekannt .
Not just any Fire of Learning video.. which we are fortunate for every time.. but this is a German folklore video. I am definitely partial to my own ancestral stories, the Proto European history and folklore is the quintessential vision of ancient folklore, scary stories, old tales, castles and dark Forrests.. Germanic, Celtic, Slav, in any direction in Europe.. North, East, South and West.. The entirety of the Western world is in dire straits of all manner and making.. without sperging and carrying out a tirade against the perpetrators.. I would only wish my German brothers and sisters the best, and look to the turning of the tide.
I feel the same I was lucky enough to be able to visit my family in german most of my life and though is still love to go back, the stories they tell me of their guests upsets me
I feel like it would be helpful to point out that Irrlicht translated to wandering light is fine, but the German name puts more emphasis on it being a lost wandering, not just being on the move. It relates more to the Irrlicht leading people astray of course, so I guess a more direct translation could be a misleading light?
RUclips helping both you and us by dropping this straight into our reccos. Trying to grind out office work during what is basically a holiday week. Thanks dude, this helps.
Oh you got me with the Wolpertinger introduction! I was like oh what's it gonna be and then I hear the name and burst out laughing. The wife looked at me like I was insane. "It's a German Jackalope!" Or a German version of the Skväder from Sweden. Love the Jackalope, it's probably my favourite cryptid. Awesome video!
I have been around the town. Whats funny is that i actually had an encounter with it as a child. Although I don't belive in stuff like that and it was propably a fox bit i still wanna belive it was one haha
This sort of reminds me of the show Grimm. It’s a crime scene investigation show but the cop is a Grimm and sees the folklore beings and creatures and they relate to the crimes. Some of these names and more are used in the show.
I find stories about cursed werewolf so weird, like: "I curse you to kill innocent people with super wolf-powers". Like, geez, thanks lady, couldn't you curse him to become a flea or something?
I've been to Berlin and I firmly believe vampires live there. I've yet to gather concrete evidence but will do so next year when I'm back for a conference.
Vampires in Berlin? Oh, absolutely-if by vampires you mean the brooding types who only come out after sunset and eat very rare meat. You should check out the underground clubs-'blood orange cocktails' are all the rage, though probably just a metaphor. As for the pale, nocturnal ones, they're just really into their skincare routine. Nothing to worry about-unless you're curious about their old world charm.
Check out the Wassermann and the Roggenmume. There is also a lot of lore on mountain spirits. The Grimm brothers did not only write down the popular fairy tale book. They also published an extensive book on folk lore including German cryptids.
Just wanted to say your pronounciation is pretty good! The Huckup (Aufhocker as it´s known in my birthtown Hildesheim) always fascinated me and I loved seeing its statue featured! Next time, also show its (kinda goofy) creepy goblin face haha
As someone born and raised in rhineland I'm very happy to hear that "Elwetrische" had made it into your video :D Some say you might be able to see or even catch one if you get into the forest under a full moon, and to attrackt it, you need to stand on one leg, singing and hopping ... But jokes aside I red that the word originated from "Elfen trittchen" which translates to "Elven steps".
Die Klagefrau reminds me a bit of my childhood in north germany. We had a very old stone house near our village. My dad and i drove past it once, and he told me the story of a woman and her husband who once lived there. One night, the husband came home drunk, and killed her in cold blood. He told everyone that a man broke in and killed her, though not many belived him. The last time someone saw him alife, was when he was leaving the local pub to go home. He was found three days later, in the well outside the stone house. After that, people claimed they saw a transparent figure at night outside the house. A woman in a long white dress, accompanied by a large white dog with long flowing fur. She would cry and scream if people looked at her and the dog would growl. This story really used to scare me as a kid, because we lived really close to that house. This story is so old, no one knows how it started. There is even a small old ''shrine'' for her at the village entrance. It's pretty cool to have legends like this in your own hometown! :D
I love the mentions to other mythologies and folklore! Comparitive mythology and finding ties from old pagan religions to modern day stories is SO FUN AMAZING I love it A delicious little treat. I love folklore, and I wish there were more materials especially for germanic countries. Would love more, though any country would be great!
Now THIS is a juicy FoL drop. Awesome to see you pop up on my feed as always! Lovely to see other areas of the world under-represented getting some love in the English speaking world.
There are so many creatures and legends that the video could go on a long time especially when, consistent with German history, folklore is examined anywhere from Lithuania to France or in a further scope everything encompassing the Holy Roman Empire (as also shown in maps used in this video).
Dont forget the german cryptid which existence is still a great controversy. The city of Bielefeld. Also there are a lot of modern sights of trolls and a "dragonlord" in northern bavaria. Truly an ominous and magical place.
my great grandma was a maid on a big farm in 1912. I have never spoken to her bc she died when i was 3 years old. My dad often mentioned, that she would talk about something that happened on this farm quite regularly. According to her there was a thing on that farm that germans know as Drude. Is some sort of spirit, that sits on your chest while you sleep and tries to suffacate you. You are awake during all that, but you can't move. ( She used to say, and this is for bavarians only: Die drud hat mi druckt ). No I am scared to death about this sleep paralysis shit and it seems to be just that. What really scares me is, that that entity, is often described the same as like this tall figure with glowing eyes. And what really really scared me, is that the drude stoped visiting my great grandma once she left the farm. You can stop a drude by hanging a ''Drundenfuß/Hühnergott'' in the attic, or by finding out who the drude is and visiting her at daytime (It seems to be disguising itself as woman with a normal life and everything, as far as I know, and they seem to be of the devil or something). I hope this never happens to me man sleep paralysis or spirit/demon I don't care just stay the fuck away from me.
Yay, I absolutely love this series and now I have an episode about my own county!!! By the way, great job with the pronunciation of the original names!!!
'The Russians and the French held the land, The British rule the seas, But our (german) sway is uncontested In the airy realm of dreams.' -> Heinrich Heine 'Germany. A Winter’s Tale'
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'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.
It’s weird. I’m German and I’ve never heard of a single German cryptid…. Guess it’s time to educate myself now (haven’t watched the vid yet). Maybe it because both my parents moved into Germany, so I don’t have a lot of experience with German folklore and stuff.
Kleiner Tipp ( ich weiß ja nicht welcher Religion du angehörig bist, wenn deine Eltern zugezogen sind ), geh Mal in deine Örtliche Kirche oder hol dir einen telefonischen Termin. Viele Kirchengemeinden haben sehr alte Bücher und freuen sich über jedes Interesse und sind, insofern man gewillt ist ordnungsgemäß und verantwortungsvoll mit den Büchern umzugehen, dieses "Wissen" zu teilen oder Kopien anzufertigen. Liebe grüße aus dem kalten Norden ✌🏻
Great and interesting video, thank you very much! I grew up and still live in western Germany and the Nachtkrapp was actually the only one of these creatures that my grandparents told me about. I of course know the Wolpertinger as well as it’s pretty famous but that came much later to me and in a whole different form
Me: "Oh for me as a German is is probably fun." First sentence: "Germany... is a haunted land." Me: "LMAO!" This was actually fun to listen to. Thank you very much.
Greetings from Germany. In our village we have indeed an old story about an "Aufhocker" in form of a werewolf. It is called the "Böchsenwolf" and it is said to have been a mischievious miner who dressed up in a wolfskin and jumped on the backs of travellers at night.
The description of the backhopper latching onto someone, and making them feel heavier and heavier until they die, sound like it could be a folkloric explanation for the symptoms of circulatory failure. Like how strokes were sometimes attributed to being shot by invisible faery arrows.
There is also the very popular legend here in Germany of a hulking monstrosity, who can be heard screaming through the night, if you venture too close to its lair. You could probably translate it to Lord of the Dragons.
theres a story about a tribe of wish granting, beastlike forrest men living in the forrest next to the tiny village where i used to live. according to the story they would grant you a wish if you completed 3 of their challenges. iirc one of the challenges was to chase and catch one of them if you ever saw them in the forrest. another was to jump over the local creek backwards, i think. cant remember the last one, honestly. the villages surrounding the forrest had maybe 100 people living there in total, so it was a very local folk tale. unfortunately the forrest is being consumed by a gravel mine now, so no more Forrest men =(. i have not thought of them since i was a kid and your video made me remember, thank you.
The aufhocker shares similarities with the phouka, a fae denizen. It's know for turning into a horse and offering weary travelers a ride only to run at terrifyingly fast speeds and to throw them off. They can turn into eagles as well I believe.
German here. My parents used to scare my older brother into going to bed on time by telling him that the nightraven would come to harvest his eyeballs if he didn't close his eyes early enough. They seemed to have underestimated how much they frightened him and came clean, so they never told me the story when I was little. He said that he often had a hard time falling asleep after hearing these tales, concentrating on clenching his eyes shut, so it was pretty counterproductive.
Ich bin immer noch nicht darüber hinweg, dass es in den USA "Kryptozoologen" gibt, die seit Jahren vom furchtbar gefährlichen "Albatwitch" raunen und allerlei Spekulationen über die Herkunft des Namens anstellen, aber einfach nicht wahrnehmen wollen, dass das nur eine amerikanisierte Schreibweise von "Elwetritsch" ist.
Dr. Ashliman!!! I was in his Germanic history class in '99! I already loved the subject but he took it to another level. Definitely check out his web page. Poor guy had to listen to my stupid questions all semester 😂! Great man!
Might just be my personal experience, but there is nothing like growing up in an area on the countryside near the forest. You hear all these stories of fairies and kobolds, devils, trolls, werewolfes and ghosts. And every evening you see the trees in the distance, a dark wall of mystery and danger. Best thing is when you drive through the forest every now and then, at least at night. The high halls of space between the trees, the shadows everywhere, i have not the words for it.
1. You may enjoy the music in this video more by turning off RUclips's "Stable Volume" setting, located by pressing the cog symbol (The circle with notches around it) in the video options.
2. The names of the entities are pronounced first like they would be in German, then they are anglicized so that they flow more easily and can be incorporated into English.
3. I think a lot of confusion is coming from the word "nachzehrer". As can be seen in the sources we cited for this section, one of which was in German, I am not saying "nacht" (night) or "sehrer" (watcher (incorrect)). "Nach" (after) "Zehren" (to feed/drain).
Your the best. thank you for all your work especially cryptid stuff.
The art, video, music, and sound effects all added to the mysterious atmosphere
@@Fireoflearning so you get the shit Know it’s all real and know what and many peaple have are heavy Car accsident Whith and it’s a car acchsiedent 💜🫠
Where do you find this stuff? I am from Germany. The First one is Not a German word. Never Heard of any of this storys
@JohannesSkolaude All sources are listed in the Patreon link in the description. (You don’t have to be a member of Patreon to see them). The flashing numbers on the screen throughout the video reference the specific sources we used for each area.
Edit: Actually, I even mentioned the main source we used for the nachzehrer in the video along with the footnote.
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.
ah yes, the worst of them all.Very few however know the origins of this garstly creature.They are created when an fat idiot dies of drinking to much beer and gets buried in a marihuanna field.Henceforth, he will haunt the living by blabbering drunk BS and hunting down potsmokers as he blames them for his curse.
I heard of that cryptid.
Anybody who watches TV at the wrong time will see it crawl out of the screen to follow its victim around and demand constant attention.
I heard of that cryptid.
It is sweating profusely and smells of hops and sausage.
there are different types of it.
some are meat lovers, some are bearded.
but the most scary one to me is the green oger like one.
I heard it’s love for beer is so great, it chooses drunk victims more often
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.
_"When the owl sings, the indian dies"_ is an old traditional mexican saying. 🦉😵.
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
Perchten, oida
I hope the kids still partake? All our traditions are dying it seems...
Oh wow, that's amazing 😍
@@marcoeire44traditions aren’t the only thing that’s dying sadly
Oh yes, I'm collecting this candy and money for "charity" 😅
*My 13 year old self eating the candy in the bushes.*
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.
😂 ❤ This may be a perfect example of an awesome stereotype about a “National sense of humor”. Germans, I love ya ❤🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺❤
SO STOP IT MAYBE?!?!?
@@Kilandil lol, why?
Is embalming common in Germany?
Few open casket burials here. My grandmother wanted open casket and the undertaker hadn't done it for like 25 years (the corpse didnt have a single wrinkle - the good man didnt hold back on the sauce 👌🏻@@dbzgal04
The term "Wiedergänger" can also be translated as "revenant" for simplicity.
GOOGEL:"DIE LATHO EXPEDITION"
It's the same in Rimworld actually!
Again walker if you're so enclined
@@jurgenjung4302whats that about? Didnt find anything on google
"Germany is a haunted land." 😳 Being German, you made me spit out my vanille ice cream dessert in shock. nice first sentence bro. 😂
Well that's a good thing...ice cream is terribly unhealthy! Lol
@@airbornestormer7016 maybe he ate protein ice creamy :)
Ever tried enjoying life? @airbornestormer7016
Have you got to the German Fairytales yet?
Or the kid books?
Danke dass du auch Deutsche Kryptide thematisierst, sehr interessant. 😊
Im German and didnt know many of these. Great research and promounciation. I love the pictures used and the music.
You have no idea how happy I am to see this in my notifications. Thanks a million.
WE ARE SO BACK
Indeed
For 40 minutes, then we'll wait weeks again....
Ok imma add one real quick, when i was 4 years old growing up in the bavarian forest i saw a giant mole that dug a tunnel that was big enough for me to crawl in. I know it was not real and must have been a dream, but it felt so realistic that it stuck in my head ever since.
You survived meeting a Bavarian Forest-Mole?! 😮 Lucky to be alive tbqh
Thats just Markus Söder
Not all dreams are the same. Sometimes we actually go "places" in dream time. I know what you mean. When I was little, I either had a dream, or it was IRL, where my friend and I took out umbrellas during strong winds and we flew a few feet off the ground for maybe 60 -80 feet. It still feels so real...
@@Eagle93Writer
He lures you into his hole to Talk about Bayern although the debate is about Bundesthemen.
To read the text and to discover your profile name right after that was just preislos, mein Kamerad
One of the most frightening thing I've ever done was riding on the back of a motorbike through the Black Forest in the middle of the night. The whole time I felt like I was going to be ripped right off the back of the bike by some predator, but I knew there are no predators left. I couldn't see anything and almost upset the bike attempting to look behind me/us. It's crazy weird because I used to be the biggest adrenaline junkie. Cliff jumping, spelunking, mountain climbing with pack, whatever, my favorite thing is White Water Rafting, so I am kind of fearless, but I felt something in the thick darkness in the Black Forest that night, and it scared the crap out of me.
It's called primal instinct. Real fear. The forest can be terrifying at night.
Thanks for sharing! That is interesting. I agree, it probably is primal instinct. The animal inside you remembers. Or, you know, could have been a Nachtzehrer checking you out. Lucky you weren't one of it's relatives :D
One important figure you forgot to mention is the elusive "Dragonlord", said to have once lead the various dragon and wyvern species that live in germany, until his base of operations, the "Drachenschanze" mysteriously vanished.
He to this day is hunted by an elusive sect, known as the "haiders"
Legends state that if you shout „Herr Winkler“, you may hear his bone chilling roars
@@DerGrüneNebel you can hear a faint ´meddl leude´ in the distance
Bavarians make taxidermy wolpertinger from various animals. They're pretty neat to see in person.
my teutonic trips to the nightly gas station for a _Leberkässemmel_ shall cease
So you get on a weird horse, it takes off on a crazy, high speed sprint around the countryside, you quickly realize you can't fall off, and then it stops, throwing you into some water.
Dude, I would pay good money for that experience.
Well, come to Germany. Our horses are .... delightful. Especially at night under the moonlight in a lonely forest. (Okay, well, hm, there hardly seem to be any lonely forests around these days. Damn, gotta work on my sales pitch...)
But that's not the whole story. sometimes it runs under a gate and starts to grow while you're still on your back. and it keeps growing until you get squashed.
@ndm8039
So basically Germany's Action Park.
@@THATGuy5654 Sure, Germany's got it - action park by day, horror movie by night. Dare to enter! 😉”
We have a similar entity here in Iceland and we call it the Nykur and it's an evil spirit of a beautiful horse that lives in our lakes and ponds. It's hoofs are backwards and it's fur is always wet. If you get on to ride the Nykur you will never get off and it will ride into the water with you on it's back where you would drown and your spirit will take the form of a Nykur. You can become it's master but I don't remember how you do it.
German here. Heard of the nachtkrapp here the first time - thank you, it's a interesting myth. The saying, that you shouldnt stare a raven in the eyes because of soul stealing was known to me. But the crows and few ravens I met were friendly natured. Wouldnt let them near my cat, because they can get evil in their games.(cats too)
i would love to befriend crow.
Immer wieder überraschend wie man selbst als Deutscher was neues in solchen Videos lernt. Hab Aufhocker z.B. vorher auch nur unter der Bezeichnung Buckelgeist gekannt .
Not just any Fire of Learning video.. which we are fortunate for every time.. but this is a German folklore video. I am definitely partial to my own ancestral stories, the Proto European history and folklore is the quintessential vision of ancient folklore, scary stories, old tales, castles and dark Forrests.. Germanic, Celtic, Slav, in any direction in Europe.. North, East, South and West..
The entirety of the Western world is in dire straits of all manner and making.. without sperging and carrying out a tirade against the perpetrators.. I would only wish my German brothers and sisters the best, and look to the turning of the tide.
I feel the same
I was lucky enough to be able to visit my family in german most of my life and though is still love to go back, the stories they tell me of their guests upsets me
I'm german and I want you to know you done a realy good job on this one . Great content. Greetings from germany 🙏 🙏 🙏
Now this is some cryptid stuff I want to see
I feel like it would be helpful to point out that Irrlicht translated to wandering light is fine, but the German name puts more emphasis on it being a lost wandering, not just being on the move. It relates more to the Irrlicht leading people astray of course, so I guess a more direct translation could be a misleading light?
Yes. Wandering light is not at all the right translation. Verirren means getting lost. So misleading light seems good.
RUclips helping both you and us by dropping this straight into our reccos. Trying to grind out office work during what is basically a holiday week. Thanks dude, this helps.
The coolest thing about these myths is seeing how the Germanic people came to have similar stories throughout their shared histories.
Scariest cryptid in Germany: man who drank all the beer
That's not a cryptid, that's me 🍻
sends a shiver down my Rücken!
This cryptid was once me as well. Could kill a case of beer in an hoor.
Angela Merklon the rapefugee bringer ?
And I thought it would be a Jewish guy
A new Fire of Learning video!
Everybody: finally...
10:38 “a variety of other animals” Peanut, no!
You ruined my mood :( RIP lil fellas. Well avenge you guys soon enough.
Guess this place has some Grimm folklore
I’ll see myself out
😅😅
Oh you got me with the Wolpertinger introduction! I was like oh what's it gonna be and then I hear the name and burst out laughing. The wife looked at me like I was insane. "It's a German Jackalope!" Or a German version of the Skväder from Sweden. Love the Jackalope, it's probably my favourite cryptid. Awesome video!
I know, I was worried it was going to be REALLY DARK! What a delightful surprise! XD
Ich bin der Wolpertinger and you have no clue what I look like😅
I have been around the town. Whats funny is that i actually had an encounter with it as a child. Although I don't belive in stuff like that and it was propably a fox bit i still wanna belive it was one haha
I should ad that it was around a place called Wolpadingen in the black forest.
You missed the infamous 'Passierschein A38'.
😂
We don't talk about that
Sweeeeet. These campfire playlist videos are great first for information and then second as background to sleep to
This sort of reminds me of the show Grimm. It’s a crime scene investigation show but the cop is a Grimm and sees the folklore beings and creatures and they relate to the crimes. Some of these names and more are used in the show.
I find stories about cursed werewolf so weird, like: "I curse you to kill innocent people with super wolf-powers". Like, geez, thanks lady, couldn't you curse him to become a flea or something?
yeah lmao so true haha
Yeah, I guess she didn't really think that one through. But imagine a were-flea! XD
Eine herrliche Überraschung! Das war schön gemacht. Vielen Dank 👍🏻
The white Woman from Ebersberger Forst. This is the legend.
White woman stories are really common, there is probably one for every minor region in europe
The Banshee here in Ireland is very similar.
Indo-European most likely.
I've been to Berlin and I firmly believe vampires live there. I've yet to gather concrete evidence but will do so next year when I'm back for a conference.
@@Schnook93 turks are the natural enemys of vampires. Even a very basic understanding of vampire history would have thought you that
Or people coming Out of the Techno clubs
Vampires in Berlin? Oh, absolutely-if by vampires you mean the brooding types who only come out after sunset and eat very rare meat. You should check out the underground clubs-'blood orange cocktails' are all the rage, though probably just a metaphor. As for the pale, nocturnal ones, they're just really into their skincare routine. Nothing to worry about-unless you're curious about their old world charm.
of course theyre in the government, they drink blood.
I am from Berlin and I want to know how I can investigate your theory!
Check out the Wassermann and the Roggenmume. There is also a lot of lore on mountain spirits. The Grimm brothers did not only write down the popular fairy tale book. They also published an extensive book on folk lore including German cryptids.
Oder der schnatermann
I'm a huge fan of cryptids of any kind - especially japanese and european ones - and never thought of looking at my own country. Exited to watch this
exactly the video I've been waiting for from you
There are plenty of interesting creatures and tales from german folklore. Always cool to see someone digging around and making videos about them.
Just wanted to say your pronounciation is pretty good! The Huckup (Aufhocker as it´s known in my birthtown Hildesheim) always fascinated me and I loved seeing its statue featured! Next time, also show its (kinda goofy) creepy goblin face haha
As someone born and raised in rhineland I'm very happy to hear that "Elwetrische" had made it into your video :D
Some say you might be able to see or even catch one if you get into the forest under a full moon, and to attrackt it, you need to stand on one leg, singing and hopping ...
But jokes aside I red that the word originated from "Elfen trittchen" which translates to "Elven steps".
Austrian Here, 🙋🏼♂️ Grüß Gott
My favourite german cryptid is a creature called the "Drachenlord". There are many sightings posted on youtube
Die Klagefrau reminds me a bit of my childhood in north germany. We had a very old stone house near our village. My dad and i drove past it once, and he told me the story of a woman and her husband who once lived there. One night, the husband came home drunk, and killed her in cold blood. He told everyone that a man broke in and killed her, though not many belived him. The last time someone saw him alife, was when he was leaving the local pub to go home. He was found three days later, in the well outside the stone house. After that, people claimed they saw a transparent figure at night outside the house. A woman in a long white dress, accompanied by a large white dog with long flowing fur. She would cry and scream if people looked at her and the dog would growl. This story really used to scare me as a kid, because we lived really close to that house. This story is so old, no one knows how it started. There is even a small old ''shrine'' for her at the village entrance. It's pretty cool to have legends like this in your own hometown! :D
Yess!!!! Beng waiting for this series to come back
Love it when you do these kind videos.
New subscriber here...... I was looking for a channel on European medieval cryptids and fairytales. So here we are! 😊
As a German, Hearing you say "Schmatzender Tod - chomping death" realy Made my day
I love the mentions to other mythologies and folklore!
Comparitive mythology and finding ties from old pagan religions to modern day stories is SO FUN
AMAZING
I love it
A delicious little treat. I love folklore, and I wish there were more materials especially for germanic countries. Would love more, though any country would be great!
Good video, but i think some of the more scary ones are missing, that are rather special to certain regions.
The backhopper, firespirits, will o' spirits and even the idea of werewolfs being witches with animal belts is also found in the Netherlands.
Now THIS is a juicy FoL drop. Awesome to see you pop up on my feed as always!
Lovely to see other areas of the world under-represented getting some love in the English speaking world.
There are so many creatures and legends that the video could go on a long time especially when, consistent with German history, folklore is examined anywhere from Lithuania to France or in a further scope everything encompassing the Holy Roman Empire (as also shown in maps used in this video).
This was an especially well produced and entertaining episode. Thank you!
OMG took me back to my childhood. My Grandmother used to _actually_ warn us kids to not stay outside till after dark because of the Nachtkrab.
Don't confuse the "Feuermann" with "Feuerwehrmann" - The former is on fire, the latter fights fire :)
the art in this video is really nice
i love the atmosphere
Such an extensive video! I’d love a video like this for Prussian regions especially East and West Prussian legends and folklore.
i love love love that you included our beloved Elwedritsche. thank you
I’ve been waiting for this day for so long, thank you. I love the mystery videos
Dont forget the german cryptid which existence is still a great controversy.
The city of Bielefeld.
Also there are a lot of modern sights of trolls and a "dragonlord" in northern bavaria.
Truly an ominous and magical place.
my great grandma was a maid on a big farm in 1912. I have never spoken to her bc she died when i was 3 years old. My dad often mentioned, that she would talk about something that happened on this farm quite regularly. According to her there was a thing on that farm that germans know as Drude. Is some sort of spirit, that sits on your chest while you sleep and tries to suffacate you. You are awake during all that, but you can't move.
( She used to say, and this is for bavarians only: Die drud hat mi druckt ).
No I am scared to death about this sleep paralysis shit and it seems to be just that. What really scares me is, that that entity, is often described the same as like this tall figure with glowing eyes. And what really really scared me, is that the drude stoped visiting my great grandma once she left the farm. You can stop a drude by hanging a ''Drundenfuß/Hühnergott'' in the attic, or by finding out who the drude is and visiting her at daytime (It seems to be disguising itself as woman with a normal life and everything, as far as I know, and they seem to be of the devil or something).
I hope this never happens to me man sleep paralysis or spirit/demon I don't care just stay the fuck away from me.
Yay, I absolutely love this series and now I have an episode about my own county!!! By the way, great job with the pronunciation of the original names!!!
'The Russians and the French held the land,
The British rule the seas,
But our (german) sway is uncontested
In the airy realm of dreams.'
-> Heinrich Heine 'Germany. A Winter’s Tale'
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'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.
It’s weird. I’m German and I’ve never heard of a single German cryptid…. Guess it’s time to educate myself now (haven’t watched the vid yet).
Maybe it because both my parents moved into Germany, so I don’t have a lot of experience with German folklore and stuff.
Kleiner Tipp ( ich weiß ja nicht welcher Religion du angehörig bist, wenn deine Eltern zugezogen sind ), geh Mal in deine Örtliche Kirche oder hol dir einen telefonischen Termin. Viele Kirchengemeinden haben sehr alte Bücher und freuen sich über jedes Interesse und sind, insofern man gewillt ist ordnungsgemäß und verantwortungsvoll mit den Büchern umzugehen, dieses "Wissen" zu teilen oder Kopien anzufertigen. Liebe grüße aus dem kalten Norden ✌🏻
Great and interesting video, thank you very much! I grew up and still live in western Germany and the Nachtkrapp was actually the only one of these creatures that my grandparents told me about. I of course know the Wolpertinger as well as it’s pretty famous but that came much later to me and in a whole different form
Please give us Italy part 2, Thank you
Btw I love the background art you've chosen! I'm a huge fan of the romantic era ❤
Clicked on this so fast I love your videos on urban legends and the like.
I’d say that genome sequencing of shroud eaters and vampires could help determine their degree of relatedness 🤔
Your videos are great
Wenn you are going to do more of those history storues of european countries?
Warmest greetings and many thanks from Bavaria.
Currently pitch black outside and a dense forest just steps away from the back yard, this will be fun.
The best channel to watch and listen to about cryptids hope to hear about more countries cryptid /myths folk lore
can you also tell me what paintings are shown? There were some nice ones!
Great video! You should do a video on specifically Bavarian legendary creatures, they are waaayyy more scary (I‘m Bavarian)
Me: "Oh for me as a German is is probably fun."
First sentence: "Germany... is a haunted land."
Me: "LMAO!"
This was actually fun to listen to. Thank you very much.
always love a FoL drop, great work as always
Greetings from Germany. In our village we have indeed an old story about an "Aufhocker" in form of a werewolf. It is called the "Böchsenwolf" and it is said to have been a mischievious miner who dressed up in a wolfskin and jumped on the backs of travellers at night.
Love it, well worth a like and sub, you sound like Dr. Evil though, somehow made it even better.
The description of the backhopper latching onto someone, and making them feel heavier and heavier until they die, sound like it could be a folkloric explanation for the symptoms of circulatory failure. Like how strokes were sometimes attributed to being shot by invisible faery arrows.
There is also the very popular legend here in Germany of a hulking monstrosity, who can be heard screaming through the night, if you venture too close to its lair. You could probably translate it to Lord of the Dragons.
I can hear you not.
Took a minute, nit gonna lie
but its more like an ogre in appearance
Wer? Der Drachenlord? 😅
Der Lindwurmfürst vom schaurigen berge
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Let's manifest it
I miss shapeshifters such as the Katzenveit and Rübezahl.
theres a story about a tribe of wish granting, beastlike forrest men living in the forrest next to the tiny village where i used to live. according to the story they would grant you a wish if you completed 3 of their challenges. iirc one of the challenges was to chase and catch one of them if you ever saw them in the forrest. another was to jump over the local creek backwards, i think. cant remember the last one, honestly. the villages surrounding the forrest had maybe 100 people living there in total, so it was a very local folk tale. unfortunately the forrest is being consumed by a gravel mine now, so no more Forrest men =(. i have not thought of them since i was a kid and your video made me remember, thank you.
YESSSSSS!!! if you ever want someone’s help on a campfire episode i’m here 👋
The aufhocker shares similarities with the phouka, a fae denizen. It's know for turning into a horse and offering weary travelers a ride only to run at terrifyingly fast speeds and to throw them off. They can turn into eagles as well I believe.
Funny that i asked years before and now it's online.
Thanks^^
Bro’s voice trips me out. Reminds me of someone can’t quite put my finger on it. ✌🏻
German here. My parents used to scare my older brother into going to bed on time by telling him that the nightraven would come to harvest his eyeballs if he didn't close his eyes early enough. They seemed to have underestimated how much they frightened him and came clean, so they never told me the story when I was little. He said that he often had a hard time falling asleep after hearing these tales, concentrating on clenching his eyes shut, so it was pretty counterproductive.
You need to check out the Wolpertinger or Elwetritsche
Ich bin immer noch nicht darüber hinweg, dass es in den USA "Kryptozoologen" gibt, die seit Jahren vom furchtbar gefährlichen "Albatwitch" raunen und allerlei Spekulationen über die Herkunft des Namens anstellen, aber einfach nicht wahrnehmen wollen, dass das nur eine amerikanisierte Schreibweise von "Elwetritsch" ist.
Damn nice seeing some Cryptids and other beeings from my homelands :)
Dr. Ashliman!!! I was in his Germanic history class in '99! I already loved the subject but he took it to another level. Definitely check out his web page. Poor guy had to listen to my stupid questions all semester 😂! Great man!
Might just be my personal experience, but there is nothing like growing up in an area on the countryside near the forest. You hear all these stories of fairies and kobolds, devils, trolls, werewolfes and ghosts. And every evening you see the trees in the distance, a dark wall of mystery and danger.
Best thing is when you drive through the forest every now and then, at least at night. The high halls of space between the trees, the shadows everywhere, i have not the words for it.
You saved my evening
Don't forget about the Zwangsvollstrecker.
Really a fire content. Greetings from Hungary
That last one was so terrifying! Can I borrow a holy hand grenade?
Very good video, but many more terrifying ones are missing.