3/14/2024 0 Comments Fairy tail world map![]() ![]() Europe’s first fairy tale collection was published in the 1630s and written by a poet from Naples called Giambattista Basile. Germany and Northern Europe might be the heartland of many Western fairy tales, but the story really began farther south in Naples. ![]() Waldkirch during Fassnacht is one of the few places where you can see a fairy tale witch zip-wiring over a Jedi, while a fairy tale king and queen clink beer steins with Stasi officers and the monster out of Predator. Most of the crowd are dressed in their own fancy-dress costumes, with horror and fantasy the dominant themes. Here, a guild of local “witches” in intricately carved wooden masks, black bonnets, and polka-dot skirts brandish their broomsticks around a roaring fire, howling at the crowd under an eerie explosion of demon-red fireworks. A “witches’ Sabbath” takes place every year in the village of Waldkirch. One of the best times to visit is in February, when people compensate for the frosty weather with the traditional pre-Lent festivities of Fassnacht. ![]() Tramp between the pine and maple trees of the Schwarzwald, the Black Forest, and those childhood fantasies of witches and wolves and gingerbread houses will press against your vision all over again. Nowhere screams fairy tales like Germany, the home of the Brothers Grimm, and the German landscape that’s most closely associated with fairy tales is the forest. ![]()
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