IM BANN DER BERGISCHEN HEXEN - Hells Bells in Bergisch Gladbach

Witches in Herkenrath, Bergisch Gladbach. When the dark season descends upon the Bergisches Land region, our ancestors would tell each other exciting and spooky stories with magical and mystical elements during the cozy twilight hours. The captivating effect of these witch tales made people so afraid that they were afraid to put their feet up under the table. 00:00 The Dark Forest Clearing 03:15 Ex with the Witch 08:59 The Church Building in Herkenrath 10:52 Hells Bells 17:17 Leti Reads 21:32 The Magic Amulet Thank you to Leti, Dana, and Stephan! _______________________________________________________________________ Literature Sources: Bergische Sagen (Legends of the Bergisches Land), Otto Schell [1897] Sagenhaftes Bergisches Land (Legendary Bergisches Land), Olaf Link Bergischer Sprachschatz - Volkskundlich plattdeutsches Remscheider Wörterbuch (Bergisches Dialect - Folkloric Low German Dictionary of Remscheid), G.H. Halbach [1951] Rhineland Legends [1969], Paul Zaunert. Ullstein Publishing House German Mythology II & III, Jakob Grimm [1844] Reprint. Rhenish-Westphalian Journal of Folklore [1960], Meisen & Schier The Goddess and the Plants, Wolf-Dieter Storl Internet sources: Topographic maps: https://opentopomap.org Wikipedia www.stadt-kirchen.de Music: Epidemic Sound ➡️Follow LOST LOCAL HISTORY - Bergisches Land & Beyond also on Telegram: https://t.me/lostlocalhistory THANK YOU FOR LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED TO LOST LOCAL HISTORY! SPREAD THE WORD AND RECOMMEND LOST LOCAL HISTORY. 🕯️ #bergischesland #nature #homeland #homelandlove #history #fairytales #tales #legends #folklore #church #bergischgladbach #königsforst #witches #secrets #cave #mystery #mythology #northrhinewestphalia #rhineland _______________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER Lost Local History is a non-commercial, self-produced video that I make available here on the YouTube platform. It makes no claim to historical, discursive, or literary completeness in any of the topics covered. It aims to inspire the imagination and the mind, offering a space to the lesser-known stories, tales, and mysticism of our homeland and other regions and cultures, and motivating viewers to experience them firsthand. It's not the Bergisches Land Historical Society, which I also greatly admire; rather, it's simply about an awareness of our decentralized environment. It's also about historical and linguistic distortions, mysterious places, and above all, the wondrous nature that underlies everything. It aims to bring joy, encourage reading between the lines, and, through preservation, contribute to a responsible awareness of history that is sometimes not explicitly promoted—because how can we appreciate nature and our homeland if we are disconnected from it, if future generations no longer have access to it? It is not itself interwoven with or identifiable by any concepts, beliefs, or ideologies. It is an individual and universal journey of discovery, one I would be happy to take you on, if you wish. At this point, I ask for a responsible and sustainable approach to nature, the places shown, and the age-old stories. Tell these and other stories to your loved ones, in keeping with tradition. Follow the old custom of sharing these and other stories with your loved ones. It can raise more questions than it answers. But these spaces are precisely what we want to fill with our own thoughts and answers, in a world where such free spaces are becoming increasingly rare, as there seems to be a simple, readily available answer for everything at the click of a button. It enjoys a creative, interdisciplinary approach to exploration, grounded in literature and academic sources to offer grounded value, orientation, and inspiration that you can use to work, puzzle, and rediscover. For everything else, there's Chat GPT, family trees, the next expert or savior, or perhaps the Brockhaus encyclopedia on your bookshelf. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT If you're interested in supporting Lost Local History, I would be delighted if you shared and promoted my content. I'd love to find some support with the video production: Please get in touch: [email protected] In the long term, Lost Local History also aims to provide a platform for further expanding the network of cultural preservers and allies of all kinds, such as Low German speakers, folklore researchers, fairy folk, nature spirits, inner earth dwellers, and those who remember. Thank you. Yours, Nathalie for Lost Local History