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Germany & Austria
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The Fire Burns — But the Witch Is Lying | The Invented Tradition From the Alps
Every year on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday, thirty-metre wooden towers are erected across Vorarlberg, Austria — and set ablaze along with a…
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Hitchhiking Ghost: The White Lady of the Ebersberg Forest, Bavaria, Germany
Forty minutes east of Munich lies one of the largest unbroken forests in Germany — ninety square kilometres, with not a single settlement to…
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This German Vampire Doesn’t Bite. It Chews. From Inside the Grave: The Nachzehrer
In 1576, a gravedigger on a plague island in the Venetian lagoon reopened a mass grave. One of the corpses — a woman —…