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 ...

This was not (as one of the many myths associated with the German nuclear weapons effort had it) because of a mistake the physicist Walther Bothe made when he measured the neutron absorption of ...

German folklore held that storks found babies ("stork stones") in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or in their beaks. The babies would then be given to ...

The hotel is in a popular hiking location near Passau in Bavaria The man killed in a crossbow murder-suicide pact in Germany is believed to have led a cultish group devoted to medieval folklore ...