1/ The most important work in German folklore research is "Deutsche Sagen" - the _other_ two-volume collection of German folk tales by the Brothers Grimm, which has been unfairly eclipsed by their fairy tale collection.
It's neither the first nor necessarily the "best" German folk tale collection, but its pioneering work laid out the path for hundreds to follow.
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https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sagen