What caused Goethe’s near-lifelong interest and obsession with Faust? Johann Georg (or Johannes) Faust has long been a strange entity in German folklore. Wilson notes that “Faust would pass through so ...

As his bemused colleagues soon realize, Belsnickel is no figment of Dwight’s overactive imagination, but a real figure from German folklore. Indeed, Belsnickel has been celebrated by the ...

It might help if we stopped calling them ‘the Brothers Grimm’, which always makes them sound like characters in one of their ...