Folkmars sagas
Volkmarser sagas are folk sagas and legends from the area around the small town of Volkmarsen in northern Hesse .
The white maiden of the Kugelsburg
A virgin, on the run from robbers who wanted to rape her, threw herself from the highest tower of the Kugelsburg . Your ghost now haunts the castle until the day all evil has disappeared from the world. Then she will show the people the treasures that are buried under the castle.
The rotating rock
There is a mighty limestone rock on the Hagen mountain near the Kugelsburg. Just as an earthquake occurred at the crucifixion of Jesus around the sixth hour and the rocks overturned, so on every Good Friday at noon this rock rotates .
The Wittmarspuk
On the road from Volkmarsen to Warburg, the village of Wittmar used to be located just behind Volkmarsen , of which only the church ( Wittmarkapelle ) and the cemetery remain today. The devil haunts this place at midnight . If you want to pass the church, you can exert yourself as you want, you won't get a step forward.
The giant from Hünenberg
A giant used to live on the Hünenberg who himself was very unhappy about his own size. The tears he cried turned to limestones that you can still find everywhere there.
Salvation through sneezing
If you used to hike through the Erpe Valley near Volkmarsen at night , you could hear a sneeze very close by , even though nobody was there. One night this happened to a carter. "Health," he called. Then a voice whispered in his ear: "I thank you that you have redeemed me, because since my death I was condemned to roam the fields until someone would shout the word you just uttered to me." Spook up.
Katten Kurt's cliffs
If in the past an animal had an accident while grazing the flock, it belonged to the shepherd. The Volkmars local shepherd, Kurt Katte, took advantage of this right by preferring to graze the cattle of the citizens very close to the steep cliffs of the Hollenkammer . He wanted animals to fall, which he could then keep to himself. He was convicted and burned at the stake . Since then, the cliffs have been called Katten Kurt's Cliffs by everyone.
The servant and the hell
A farmhand from Lütersheim once worked a field at the Hollenkammer. He knew that the hell live there and that they like to bake cakes, which they give to people as a deposit for borrowed pots and pans. Hollen are goblins who are good to humans but can also be very resentful when offended. When he heard a noise, he shouted "Holle, bake me a cake!" When he turned around and came back to the same place, there was the baked cake. But the servant didn't dare to eat from it. Then he heard a hell shout: "If you don't take the cake, I'll scratch your eyes out!"
The unfaithful Ackermann
The village of Ehringen also belongs to the city of Volkmarsen today . There lived a farmer who plowed a few furrows from his neighbors 'land every time he plowed, thus increasing his own property year after year at the neighbors' expense. Since his death he has been condemned to wander every night over the fields which he has so illegally enlarged.
The Höpperquelle
In the Hörle district of Volkmars , children once played at a spring rich in water. Unbeknownst to the others, one of the children fell into the water and sank. The Höpper, that is, the frog , who lived in the water , gave a warning by croaking loudly so that the child could be saved. As a thank you, the villagers erected a memorial to him and from then on called the source Höpperquelle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle lady. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c J. Schulz: Legends and stories . In: Educational Working Group (ed.): Heimatbuch Wolfhager Country, Part I . Wolfhagen 1966, p. 86 .
- ^ Karl Lynker: German sagas and customs in Hessian districts . Kassel and Göttingen 1860, p. 89 .
- ↑ Mystical places, the Hollenkammer. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ^ Karl Werhan: Westphalian sagas . Paderborn 1934, p. 42 .
- ^ Karl Lynker: German sagas and customs of Hessian districts . Kassel and Göttingen 1860, p. 115 .
- ↑ Hörle. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .