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#WritersCoffeeClub – 9th Aug. What’s a subject you’d like to write about, but haven’t yet? ...let me check my list. I am fairly confident that I could find enough material for books(*) on the following topics, which I have barely started to cover in my translations: - City-themed folk tales - Divine Judgment in all its forms - Churches in folk tales - A separate book on monasteries - Castle-based folk tales - Evil nobles (with parallels to our modern, moneyed would-be aristocrats) - Omens and Prophesies (possibly to be split up into separate books) - Saints and miracles - Springs, rivers, lakes (separate from a book on water spirits) - Fortean weirdness (like omens, but even stranger) - Crime and punishment - Bandits and outlaws - War-themed folk tales - A separate book on the Thirty Years' War (with a special focus on those Evil Swedes!) - Paganism in German folk tales - Folk tales about children (which doesn't necessarily mean _for_ children...) - Graveyards and burial - Plant folklore - Curses - Otherworlds - Tricksters and Fools And to emphasize, these are the topics I am confident I could find enough material to write a book about _right_ now - and I have only surveyed a fraction of all German folk tales in the public domain. I am sure that there will be more topics in the future. Though I am curious - which of these topics is of particular interest to you? (*) I.e. at least 100 tales to fill an entire collection. #amwriting