I should point out that my interest is less in traditional "fairy tales" than in local local legends. The former tend to be more universal in their narratives, while the latter are deeply embedded in local geography, history, and culture.

I've even put most of these tales on an interactive map - either the town where they come from, or the actual place where the legend supposedly took place. You can see them for yourself on this interactive map!

https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

Apart from that, one of my major interests are tabletop role-playing games - another form of oral storytelling which IMO is a worthy successor to the oral storytellers of old.

(And I would appreciate it if people spread this post to TTRPG spaces. My old account was on Mastodon.social, and I lost several hundreds of followers from dice.camp when the admins there temporarily defederated that instance...)

#ttrpg #dnd #pnpde #pathfinder