Tales from the Swiss Mountains / Märchen aus den Schweizer Bergen

Folktales and Legends of Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland / Sagen des Kanton St. Gallen

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900s 1200s 1400s 1500s 1600s 1700s 1800s Abyss/Bottomless Pit Alp Alpmutterli Appenzell Wars A stranger arrives Austrians Bailiff Battlefield Bear Beast-Monster Beggar Bell Bergspeigel (Mountain Mirror) Birds Blacksmith Blessed Boatmen Boundary Marker Boy Bridge Bull Burnt finger marks Castles Caves Chamois Cheese Children Children of the Fasting Church/Chapel/Abbey Countess/Lady Cows Curse Cursed dairymaid Dance Devil/Evil One Doctor Dog Dragon Dwarves Editor's Pick Famine Farmer Feast Feuds Fiery Man Folk Botany Forest French Ghost/Black Cat Ghost Fox Ghost Goat Ghost Horse/Rider Ghost Hound Ghost Pig Ghosts/Spirits Giant Gift Goats Goblins Gold Golden Skittles Gräggi Gypsies Habsburgs Haunting Hazel stick turns black Herdsman/Dairyman Hidden Treasure Horses House How X got its name Humour Hunter Knight/Lord Lake Lost Lost Town Lovers Magic Spell Maid Man in Black Man in White Markenrücker Milk Mines Miracle Monks Mountains Murder Music Musicians Night Folk Owls Plague Prayer Premonition of Death Priest Prince-Abbot Procession Punishment Redemption Road/Path Roman Saints Secret Passage Shrine Silver Bullet Snakes Snow the next morning Soldier Spring/Fountain/Well Spurned reward St. Gallus Storms/Winds Strange Noises Stream/River Stubete Swamp/Marsh Swollen Head The Schrättlig The Wild Hunt Thief Toads Transformation Transformed into a fox Tree Tricked Unhold (Fiend/Ogre) Valley / Ravine / Gorge Venetian War Water Went to bed and died soon after White Dove Wildmannli (Wild Little Man) Witches Wizard/Magician/Warlock Wodan Woke up by a gallow/pyre Woman in White Written Swiss-German Züsler

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01. St. Gallen City
02. Tablat District
03. Rorschach District
04. Unterrheintal District
05. Oberrheintal District
06. Werdenberg
07. Sargans District
08. Gaster District
09. See District
10. Obertoggenburg District
11. Neutoggenburg District
12. Alttogenburg District
13. Untertoggenburg
14. Wil District
15. Gossau District
Alt St. Johann
Altstätten
Amden
Andwil
Arznach
Au
Balgach
Bütschwil
Benken
Berg
Berneck
Bronschhofen
Brunnadern
Buchs
Canton Bern
Degersheim
Description/Advice
Diepoldau
Ebnat
Eggersriet
Eichberg
Ernetschwil
Eschenbach
Flawil
Flums
Fragment
Gaiserwald
Gams
Ganterschwil
Goldach
Goldingen
Gommiswald
Gossau
Grabs
Häggenschwil
Hemberg
Henau
Inzwil
Jona
Jonschwill
Kaltbrunn
Kappel
Kirchberg
Krinau
Krummenau
Lütisburg
Lichtensteig
Marbach
Mörschwil
Mels
Mogelsberg
Mosnang
Muolen
Nesslau
Niederbüren
Niederhelfenschwil
Oberbüren
Oberhelfenschwil
Oberriet
Oberuzwil
Other
Other Swiss folklore
Peterzell
Pfäfers
Quarten
Ragaz
Rapperswil
Rüti
Rebstein
Rheineck
Rieden
Rorschach
Rorschacherberg
Sargans
Schmerikon
Sennwald
Sevelen
Song/Poem
St. Gallenkappel
St. Margrethen
Stein
Steinarch
Story (set-up/action/consequence)
Straubenzell
Tablat
Tübach
Thal
Uncategorized
Untereggen
Vilters
Waldkirch
Wallenstadt
Wartau
Wattwil
Wil
Wildhaus
Wittenbach

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