With sources ranging from the 13th-century Poetic and Prose Eddas to the 20th-century works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lecouteux's encyclopedia covers Norse and Germanic gods, including crowd-pleasers Odin, ...

For some it was a walk down memory lane. For others it was a glimpse at their heritage. And for a few it felt like going home. The Heemet Fescht brought culture to life. Held at the Pennsylvania ...

With a flurry of claps and slaps, the dance was set in motion. High-energy, rockin’ alpine music drove the dancers through their moves. Inside the German American Klub’s spacious dance hall, the ...

Aubrie Blauvelt holds a BA in both German and Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University all the way in Bloomington, Indiana. In her time in Indiana, she focused primarily on storytelling in ...

Picking up from where I left off last week, we were visiting the oldest preserved farm in Germany. When we visited the farm’s grist mill, we discovered yet another powerful tool to fend off demons and ...

The world's most famous collection of children's stories began as an academic study for adults, when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected German folklore in the 1800s. The brothers in later life. Jacob ...

Holding hands and dressed in black, white and red garb, pairs of men and women rocked back and forth as they circled each other at the Beethoven Maennerchor Garten and Halle on Saturday. The dancers, ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! South Street was filled with the sounds of oompah music and the smell of fresh ...