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A German Kitchen Witch Brings Good Luck to Your Kitchen!

January 11, 2019

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German Halloween

When I was growing up, my mother always had a flying Kitchen Witch hanging in the kitchen window. Now, the legend says that a German Kitchen Witch will protect your food as you cook it… no more pots boiling over, no more burnt cakes…. just delicious foods that will nourish your family. Did it work? […]

What is the Sandmaennchen? A little Man who Sent German Kids to Dream

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Story- An 800 Year Mystery Wrapped in a Fairy Tale

July 13, 2018

karenanne

Book and Movie Reviews

While visiting Germany many years ago I had to visit the town of Hamelin. You see, when I was growing up, one of my favorite records had the Rattenfänger von Hamelin story… the Pied Piper of Hamelin Story. As a child, the idea of all those kids being snatched up because the town fathers didn’t […]

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What is the Loreley? The Legend, the Song, and How to See It…

June 5, 2018

karenanne

German legends

You are cruising down the Middle Rhine admiring the castles towering over vineyards and small villages when suddenly near Sankt Goarhausen, the whole ship breaks into song in front of a rock cliff. You’ve reached the Loreley. But WHAT is the Lorelei? It’s not just a pile of rocks, it is a place of song and […]

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Three Cages in Münster Germany -What was the Anabaptist Rebellion?

October 12, 2017

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German legends

One of the more notorious memories of my childhood are the cages in Münster Germany. Three of them hang from the spire of the St Lambarti church, and are visible from all corners of the city, but they also turn up in my family’s photo albums. It seems like every time we visited […]

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What Is Walpurgisnacht? And How did An English Nun Become Associated with Witches?

April 28, 2017

karenanne

German Halloween

Legends and traditions about Witches are quite common in Germany… think about all the Fairy Tales you’ve ever heard, isn’t there always a witch? So, of course, there is a night called Walpurgisnacht or Hexennacht (Witches’ Night), a sort of second Halloween. But … What is Walpurgisnacht (pronounced Val-purr-gess-nach-t)? When is it celebrated? Why is […]

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Is German Chocolate Cake German?

February 23, 2017

karenanne

single slice of chocolate caramel and pecan cake ready to enjoy

German Foods and Recipes

A question I hear very often (almost as often as the Christmas Pickle question) came up again today… “Is German Chocolate Cake German?”. Well… the short answer is- NO, it’s not. But before you go off to read something else, let me share some German Chocolate cake history, and how it got its name. […]

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Krampus in German Folklore – What IS Krampus?

November 22, 2016

karenanne

German Christmas Traditions

I grew up the child of Northern German parents, so I didn’t learn about Krampus until I was much older. In my world, Knecht Ruprecht was St Nicholas’s sidekick, and Krampus lived in Bavaria and Austria. But now, because of movies and popular culture… as well as annual Krampus Runs… the myth of Krampus is […]

Make this Fairly Easy Berliner Recipe for Karneval!

Germany Land of Legend and Real Fairy Tale Locations

April 19, 2016

karenanne

German legends

Germany is a land of legends and real Fairy Tale locations, and the most amazing thing is that you actually can visit these places! Ancient forests, Castles with high towers, wide open fields, and Statues. Imagine, visiting an enchanted castle where Sleeping Beauty waited for her prince, or wandering the forest where Little Red Riding […]

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The Tale of Kunigunde von Kynast

May 7, 2015

karenanne

German legends

Love this story I got from Paul Von Stache. It’s a fairy tale or folk story from Silesia (Schelsien). I had never heard it before. It sounds like an original Grimm tale, and definitely not a Disney-Happy-Ending-with-singing-Animals Story. The tale is about Kunigunde von Kynast. It took place in Kynast Castle (a/k/a Burg Kynast) in […]

A German Kitchen Witch Brings Good Luck to Your Kitchen!

The Elves of Cologne -The story of the Helpful little Heinzelmännchen of Köln

March 24, 2015

karenanne

Book and Movie Reviews

One of the dioramas on the fountain showing the Heinzelmännchen doing work Once upon a time, so the legend goes, the city of Cologne was helped along by a little race of creatures called Heinzelmännchen. It began simply enough… when the humans went to bed, the Heinzelmännchen came along and finished up all the work that […]

Hanni and Nanni – Our Favorite Twins for Over 50 Years!

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