I am currently reading through a collection of German folk tales from the #Alsace , in the French-German border regions.
And the regional differences are quite fascinating - there are numerous tales that mention "Feen", the German term for "fairies", while that term is almost completely absent in other German-speaking regions.
This only confirms my conviction that it would be inappropriate to call the many spirits in German folk tales as "fairies", since that evokes associations that aren't really appropriate for most German-speaking regions.
#fairy #folklore
https://archive.org/details/stoeber_Die_sagen_des_Elsasses/
