Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The Elwetritsch (Elwedritsche), a comical legendary creature of German folklore from the Palatinate — a chicken-like fowl with antlers and scales, famous
The Drude (Trude), the nightmare-hag and night-demon of German and Alpine folklore — a malevolent female spirit who torments sleepers with crushing
The Bilwis (Bilwiz), an ambivalent field- and grain-spirit of German folklore — an old elf turned malevolent corn-demon or field-witch who cuts strange
The Aufhocker, a malevolent night-creature of German folklore — a shapeshifting spirit that leaps onto the back of a lone traveller in the dark and grows
The Alp, the nightmare-demon of German folklore — a small, shapeshifting spirit that sits upon the sleeper’s chest, pressing down with crushing weight,
The Nixie (Nix, Nixe), the water-spirit of Germanic folklore — a shapeshifting being of rivers and lakes who appears as human or fish-tailed merfolk,
The Klabautermann, the ship-spirit of German and Baltic maritime folklore — a small kobold-like sprite who dwells in a sailing ship and helps the crew by
The Kobold, the household and mine spirit of German folklore — a small, mischievous, often invisible sprite that helps with chores and brings luck to the
The Lorelei (Loreley), the enchanting siren-spirit of the river Rhine in German folklore — a beautiful golden-haired maiden on the great rock who combs
The Erlking (Erlkönig), the malevolent forest-spirit and king of the elves of Germanic folklore — the sinister Alder King who lures and seizes travellers
