#germany

I have translated the folk tale "Das verwünschte Schloss Mecklenburg bei Fürstenhagen, unweit Feldberg" (*"The Cursed Castle Mecklenburg near Fürstenhagen, close to Feldberg"):

www.patreon.com/posts/accursed-abodes-97229842

#Germany #folktale #folklore

I snagged this book while visiting the Open Air Museum in Cloppenburg (which I recommend highly to anyone interested in the history and lifestyle of rural farms in Northwestern Germany - just make sure you have an entire day's worth of time to see all of it).

This book details the life and problems of rural tenant farmers in Northwestern Germany - people who did not own their own land, but had to rent it from the wealthier farmers and do manual labor for those same farmers in order to get by.

There are reasons why approximately 5.5 million Germans emigrated in the 19th century up until WWI, and the desperate poverty of much of the rural population is a huge part of it. #Germany #history #farming

I have translated and released the tale "Der Schwarzkünster"/"The Practitioner of the Black Arts" from this book on my Patreon:

archive.org/details/bub_gb_6Ig6AAAAcAAJ/page/n117/mode/2up

#Germany #folktale #folklore