Wild Woman of Wildfrauenhecke

Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Wild Woman of the Hedge
Category: Forest dweller


The Myth

Between Böwingen and Useldingen there once lay a place known as the Wild Woman’s Hedge, where the road now runs.

People said that a wild woman lived there. Parents warned their children not to linger in that place, telling them it was not a good spot, for the wild woman dwelt there.

Thus the hedge was remembered as the haunt of a hidden female spirit who lingered in the landscape.


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Sources

sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Wildfrauenhecke zu Useldingen. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wildfrauenhecke.html


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