German Folklore Monsters

Creatures found in the legends and folktales of german speaking countries such as germany austria or switzerland.

German folklore monsters. Monsters creatures germany s dense black forests and soaring misty peaks made it a tinderbox for fantastical beliefs and cracked fairy tales. It was a goblin like creature that would sit on the chest of its victims while they slept to cause them discomfort. Storytellers over the centuries have come up with a whole host of sinister comical mysterious and curious creatures from witches werewolves and white ladies to dwarves. Like other german folklore stories especially those by the grimms the advanced read the seven ravens features children turned into birds.

In fact the cause of people having nightmares in german and swedish folklore was attributed to the mahr. These creatures after appearing in the dreams of men women would continue to haunt them by creating and showing them nightmares. The alps are creatures found in the german folklore that appeared in nightmares the middle of the night. Creatures in norse mythology.

As you can see the germanic culture has had its fair share of crazy and scary monsters throughout its long history. She looks for help from the sun the moon and the morning star. English legendary creatures 5 c 64 p g german legendary creatures 3 c 36 p s scandinavian legendary creatures 4 c 44 p pages in category germanic legendary creatures the following 11 pages are in this category out of 11 total. This category has the following 3 subcategories out of 3 total.