In Other Media

I encourage people to share and rework the tales I translate, which is why I put all my translations under a Creative Commons Zero license. And it is always a special treat when I do so. Here are thus some podcasts and videos that reference my work. Please support them by liking and subscribing to them!

Podcasts

• F*cked Up Fairy Tales: The Podcast:
  • Season 3, Episode 1: Forget About the Grimm! German Folktales beyond Grimm’s Kinder- und Hausmärchen
• The Dispatchist:
  • Episode 49: Episode on “Hellpets”
    • Mention of the mountain fish at 30:10, black poodles at 58:35 and the “Cockerel of the Deep” at 1:19:35.
• The Drunken Storyteller’s Podcast:
  • S2E9: Ghost poodle, yeeting beehives and a big hole
  • S2E10: Heidelberg Knights, Giants and Water Spirits
• Sandman Stories Presents:
  • EP 308: Halloween- The Klabautermann; The Ship from Hell

Videos

• Fireside Fairytales:
  • It’s not Xmas until Odin Raids the Countryside
  • Scary Ghost Stories from Christmases long long ago? Since when?
  • Christmas Eve is for the Devil!
  • Xmas Weapons in German Folktales from Rods to Swords
  • The Ghost Parades of the High Alps (& other Folklore)
  • The Bowling Ghosts of Folklore (Surprisingly common!)
  • Sleepy Hollow before Washington Irving: the Original Tales
  • Folktales where people drop dead for little to no reason
  • Marriage Powder, Enchanted Love Spoons, & other Creepy Alternatives to Dating
  • Kobolds: Origin Stories from German Folklore
  • Dwarves before Tolkien: The Unexpected Origin Stories in Folklore
  • Dragons & their Poop: Really weird folktales about dragons
  • German Folklore about monsters in deep waters…
  • The Woman who Peed a Lake: A German Folktale
  • What is a “Faustian Bargain” anyways?
  • Why are Black Poodles Ever-Present in Folklore?
  • Why do Spirits Squeeze Travelers?
  • What happens when a giant drops its spectacles?
  • 9 Tales of Cats in Folklore
  • Tales of the Devil’s Damned Dames
  • Why would the Devil Build a Cathedral?
  • The Romantic Tragedies of German Folklore
  • The Dumbest Reasons Evil was Summoned
  • What is Justice in German Folklore?
  • The Haunting Fey of German Folklore
  • The Chest-Crushing Spirits of Germany
  • Tales of the Vile Blood-Sucking Undead of Old Folklore
  • Five Short Tales about German Monsters in Folklore
  • Reading Folklore about Uncanny Cattle & Other Mystical Wildlife
  • The Cursed Coin That’s Never Spent – Icelandic & German Folklore
  • The Fickle Cures of German Folklore
  • Folktales from the Depths – German Folklore
  • Who the heck is “Pumphut”? – German & Sorbian Folklore
  • The Maidens that protect Mountain Goats – German Folklore
  • The Cursed Treasures of German Folklore
  • The Working Class Fey, Pumphut – German & Sorbian Folklore
  • Tales of Witches, Hags, & Trudes – German Folklore
  • The Pilgrimage of the Cursed Toads – German & Scottish Folklore
  • The Monster Birds of Germany – German Folklore
  • Will a snake crawl in your sleeping mouth? – German Folklore
  • The Giant Monk crawling in Mines – German Folklore
  • The Thieving Alchemists of Folklore – German Folklore
  • The Fictional Venice in German Folklore
• F*cked Up Fairy Tales:
  • The Tale of Hiddensee Island: YouTube, TikTok
• Liz Gotauco:
  • The Evil Poodle Ghosts of Germany
• Sarai Pahla, ActuallyAutistic:
  • SunkenCastles #EvilPoodles Reading (Jürgen Hubert)

Interviews and Panel Discussions

In these, I give my own two cents in person:

• Of Gods and Gamemasters:
  • Myth and Monsters: Kobolds! featuring Jurgen Hubert!

RPG Adaptions

I consider modern tabletop role-playing games to be one of the legitimate successors to the oral folk storytelling of old (alongside fan fiction, of course). Thus, I thoroughly enjoy it when someone takes one of these tales and uses them as inspiration for their role-playing ames:

• Going Home: The Witch of Bad Wilsnack (Twilight 2000)
• The Totenkopf Spider (GURPS, D&D 5E)