Luxembourg Forest dweller Mythology

Wild Woman of Wildfrauenhecke

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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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Äschtercher of Useldingen

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Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Useldingen Gnomes, Äschtercher
Category: Gnome, Forest dweller

The Myth

Between Useldingen and Ewerlingen, in the woods near the Lohmühle mill, little gnomes were said to live. The people of the area called them Äschtercher.

These small beings were known to frighten children who wandered too far into the woods. They were said to be especially drawn to those who bathed in the Attert River, where they would appear suddenly and startle them.

Thus the people spoke of the little gnomes of the forest, who lingered near the river and the mill and whose presence was feared by the young.

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Sources

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

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Religious Readings
  • Christian Ascetic Deep Dive
Philosophical Readings
  • Nietzschean Deep Dive
Psychological Readings
  • Jungian Deep Dive
Esoteric Deep Dive
  • Hermetic Deep Dive
Political / Social Readings
  • Marxist Deep Dive