Fairytales are only sweet and sugary in your mind because of Disney. Most of them are, in fact, rather gruesome.

Hallo Lauren, ich bin immer wieder begeistert von deinen Videos. Du findest immer wieder diese ruhigen und stillen Orte in unserem Land und die schon seit Ewigkeit bestehen. Das sind die Orte, die ich gerne besuche. Wünsche noch ein schönes Restwochenende. 👍😊

Btw. The music in the background is absolutely BRILLANT!!! WOW 😍

what a treat for my eyes and ears! thank you lovely Lauren for this fantastic video.

What a nice, mystic fairy tale. Thank you for sharing with us, Lauren. Cheers from Denmark.

"Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind..." Bei dem Satz konnte ich als Kind wieder aufatmen. 😅 Die Geschichte davor war aufregender. Vielen Dank für deine schönen Videos.

Your videos are perfect for soothing my Sunday evening anxiety. 🙂

Hi Lauren, thank you for taking us along to the northern coast of Germany. I had no idea that they have a hange made of stone in that area, I think that is super interesting. As usual, your videos are not just packed with beautiful scenery, but are also quite educational. They cover the arts, folklore, history and even talk of archeological finds. The Märchenwald reminds me a little of a place I called "Der Hexenwald", near where I grew up In the Fichtelgebirge. Have a great week and cheers - Peter

Moin, Lauren! Dankeschön, du hast wieder einmal eine wunderbare Stimmung erzeugt mit deinem Video! Liebe Grüße, Ben❤😊

I simply love your Videos!!! Bitte,liebe Lauren, mach weieter so.🥰😀

It's really interesting and very enjoyable to discover Germany - my home country - from your perspective. Thank you for those beautiful and inspiring impressions.

What a fun idea! Well done, Lauren. I got really scared...

Best guard dogs ever!

Rügen is so wonderful when you walk outside the „big“ cities. I highly recommend a ride with the „Rasender Roland“ and a visit at Jagdschloss Granitz. Or visit the nearby isle of Hiddensee.

Great video! Love your narration.

Eine schöne Erzählung von Dir die Bilder und die Musik sind ein Genuss. Danke Lauren.

Up to a certain point the farytales helped me (7) to deal with the death of my Opa. He loved picking mushrooms in the nearby forest. I saw him some hours before he died, walking into the woods. He looked at us kids playing, waved and off he went, forever...... Sometimes i ask myself, if he, somehow, knew it was not a "hi kids"👋, but a "goodbye"👋? 🤷 Maybe we meet again?🥲 Somewhere out there.🌌 Who knows?.... Tschau

I live in northern Germany in Schleswig-Holstein and we have soo many of these stone graves (Hühnengräber) . I love these too.

Struwwelpeter was also written to scare kids and return them on the right way...🤔🤣

Fairy tales are simply part of Europe and despite the sometimes dense population, there are many places of the old fairy tales that can still be found, many landscapes with the associated lakes, mountains, forests, old castle's and clearings stimulate the imagination and create a certain atmosphere. The East of Germany is clear less populated and therefore leaves more space for nature, the rivers and lake landscapes of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg are simply beautiful, perfect for exploring with a camper.

Thank you for another beautiful video!

I've been to Rügen several times, but missed Hünengrab Riesenberg completely. Think I have to go again. Thanks for the inspiration.

Perfect video again, Lauren. I wonder what you will pull out of your sleeve next time. And i look forward to it. Denmark, where i live now, consists mainly of stones and gravel from what now is the various valleys of Norway. Brought here during the last ice age. No(r)way, no Denmark. Same goes for some parts of Germany as well. Thank's for your great work. Get a good nights sleep.

Lauren you are a wonderful person. Stay that openminded 😍🙋‍♂

I am so happy You didn't time travel in that stonehenge on Rügen, like Claire The Outlander Fraser! I know, I'm selfish, but I need You here in this time! ❤

Wernigerode, Thale, Saxon Switzerland....and so on.

And if they have subscribed, they lived happily ever after! 😁

Great as always

The footage... you are so so so so good! I wish my parents could see this...

I am so happy you have Floki!

Great ending! So I am going to live happily on and on and on and ...

Nice to have you here in in Germany, Lauren... Luckily for "us germans" you have kept a refreshing part of your british Humor.... 😀

Yes, Grimm's fairy tales - I grew up listening to them some 60 years ago... Keep in mind that they were actually not authored by the Grimm brothers, but collected on trips throughout the country. So they represent probably decades, if not centuries of development in the "collective mind" of the people. And yes, times were rough back then, and it probably was wise to introduce already small children to the harsher aspects of life, i.e. not everybody is your friend, and it doesn't hurt to be smart, and so on. Now the standard ending "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" was, at least to me as a kid, never that scary. Usually, in the end, the good had triumphed over the evil, and everybody was happy. After the standard beginning of a fairy tale "Es war einmal..." ("Once upon a time") this ending leaves a slight possibility that the story had taken place not so far back in the past, after all... By the way, I think even in the English culture not everything for kids was kid-friendly by today's standards. I think there is a prayer that children were supposed to say before going to sleep, which contains the lines: "I pray to God my soul to take, if I should die before I wake" (or something relatively similar) Yikes! Try going to sleep with the fear of not waking up any more... that I find even scarier than that fairy-tale ending! But great video, thanks!

Very impressive guard dogs!

Floki is the Viking ship Builder fronm the Vikings TV Series ;)

Rügen ist sehr schön an der Ostsee gelegen. Mein Mann und ich hatten auch schon mal eine Woche Urlaub in Putbus und Binz verbracht wo unser Sohn noch klein war und unsere Tochter noch nicht geboren war. Liebe Grüße aus Ostfriesland.🌹

Wonderful, thankyou you again. Would be to nice hear in concert !

Sooooo, erst like *klick*, dann schauen, ich weiß sowieso schon, dass es mir gefallen wird! 😍🤗❤️🌹❤️🤗😍

If I'm not mistaken a 'Hünengrab' is a grave for the Vikings. For more Viking history, Haitabu in Schleswig - Holstein is the right adress. And I think, if you feel uncomfortable in Germany it's more about your mindset and where you live in Germany .

These guard dogs even have a uniform...🤣🤣

😳 _1209!_ My _goodness._ Talk about a piece of _history._ Aside from the Vikings, non-Americans had not found the Americas, yet. Let's see, now. There was the _Aztec_ Empire, the _Olmec_ Empire and the _Mayan_ Empire. I don't think there were _other_ empires on this side of the pond, yet.

Do You have any idea how amazing You are? It's indescribable! ❤

You can easily spot a Kobold if you know what kind hat they wear.

Evening treat! ❤🎉

you should read the "Struwelpeter" , next level german fairytales :D

The interesting thing is that the brothers Grimm allready softend the farytales they collected. Before that most of them where brutal and sometimes bloody horror stories and not for children. They where stories to keep the adults on track.

2:15 - no, you are not a Kobold, you are a fairy, so there is nothing to fear. :-) Btw., try the Straße der Megalithkultur for more Hünengräber. Some of them really seem to be made for giants. I visited the Visbeker Bräutigam, the Brautwagen and the Heidenopfertisch, and they are amazing. If you want moss, visit the Lindenstumpf near Schondra in the Bavarian Kuppenrhön in summer, it is located close to the A7. Enjoy the moss-covered ground which I noticed roughly a decade ago.

😂 how long have I been subscribed now? I am so happy I clicked!

The name Floki reminds me of the boatbuilder from the series "Vikings". from a few years ago.

I'm so sorry for flooding Your comments again... Okay, I'm not sorry, sorry! 😁🤭❤️

Rügen is also the location of the „Schwarzer See“ (black lake) where historians think that it was a holy sight for the Germanic people and a place for human sacrificie

Herrlich Lauren! Ich liebe ihre Geschichten, und wie sie diese erzählen! In Spanish they say: de puta madre!😂😂😂😂

The Celts were very influential in the region of continental Europe that today is covered by Germany, France, Czech, Hungary, Austria, all of the Balkans. The territory where they could be found stretched over a huge area. From the Himmelsscheibe of Nebra / the sky disc of Nebra we know for certain that trade was fairly common among the many regions of the Celtic influence. This disc was an archaeological highlight when it was found. The story about its find, its theft, and its recovery would easily lend itsself to a treasure hunt movie. What is so interesting is that we can analyze today where the different materials, including metals, it was created from originated. Some parts came from the British Islands, very probably even from Wales, others came from a mine on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, again others from mines in the Erzgebirge in today eastern Germany. It was tinkered with several times during its existence but separated by several centuries. So it shows that this sky disc, a quasi calendar and location device for specific star formations, was in use by the Celtic tribes of the area for multiple centuries. This shows how incredibly far reaching the Celtic influence was over 5000 years ago. So it is no wonder you as a 'Welsh Celtic girl' feel so welcome in these areas.

Oh my god. I so want to go to all these places if only I had the time😢 ❤🇩🇪🥰

Goose pimple video. Thanks so much. 😘

Rügen ist super sexy! Moin aus Schleswig-Holstein.

What would the area look like in summer?

Deine Videos sind ein toller Kontrast zu dem, was man sonst auf KZfaq für einen Mist angeboten bekommt. Mach weiter so. !!!!!

You are Brothers Grimm late sister...👍🤘🤣

I was about to say, obviously people haven't read the original stories 😂

Its like the dolmen in Ireland

In former, let`s say, ancient times children sat around the fire together with the adults and listen to the myths and stories they were telling. Some resurchers believe that there might not have been stories especially for little children during that time. Thousands of years ago ife was rough and hard and sometimes dangerous, so life could be short and children had not much time to learn what there was to know about the world, people, Gods and nature. What the Grimm Brothers collected were "Volksmärchen" especially around Hessen in the middle of Germany. They visited hostels and inns, waited for travelors and aked them about what tales they knew. Many of these Volksmärchen (there are also "Kunstmärchen", these were new stories, created and written by authors of that time, not handed down by ancestors) are said to have much older roots, maybe from neolithic period, and were but translated again and again into later times and by time made fitting into a more modern era and culture. And yes, in former centuries, especially the 1800s, many of them were used to frighten children, but the much earlier versions weren`t children`s fairytales but tales adults told others, they were nothing else than stories of life and death, heaven and earth, fire and water, mystic and real world. That`s what life always was and is today - many of us are simply quite privileged to not have so very much dark, sad, cruel or dramatic topics in their life. These fairytales are full to the brim with metaphores and images of what the "usual" and spiritual world contains, and metaphores are quite often "exaggerated" to impress more and make very clear what is meant behind the picture. So many Volksmärchen and Mythen are a kind of story which - because of their age and much earlier roots which sometimes disappear into the mists of stoneage times - are nothing else than a very old web of story which is filled again and again with fitting pictures and details to transport something very old and some newer things, depending on the area and time where/when they are told. In the long history of telling tales it is quite a new and modern thing to make them fit especially for children. When industrialization started in the 1700s where many of the Grimm tales like we know them today where told, there wasn`t even such thing as "childhood" and children were seen als "people with smaller body which will grow", we see it in the way children were forced to work in early factories, in the fields, on the street or in the mines. That`s the time when much earlier fairytales became quite popular, and they put some things of their dayly life and culture in. Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" tells of a time where women and girls worked in the dangerous match factories poisoning themselves - or sold matches in the streets. It had been put in, but there is a much more ancient root to that and many other tales. There are some very interesting traces to where some of the older parts and details or topics of some fairytales lead or how much of it indeed once had a real underground. We must see such old tales and content from a much older perspective and view - they origin in times where they weren`t used to be children`s tales to "educate" children in a quite brutal way; once they were tales to entertain adults and at the same time carry real content from former times and cultures and sometimes also belief: Giants and witches, gnomes and fairies, talking animals of the forest and good or bad sorcerers with their spells and magic objects find their origin in ancient times and cultures but not in the middle ages, Renaissance or much later. So the fact that there seem to be "Grimm versions" also in eastern European countries, the British Isles, Rusia or Skandinavia might not only mean that the fairytales which the Grimm Brothers did collect were so very popular - there might have been some very old and ancient basics of some tales everywhere on the continent, at the same time and for thousands of years. Sorry for so much text, but this topic is so very fascinating! As your videos are, each and everyone of them! You do inspire so very much with your way to tell these stories of ancient and more modern content, together with showing landscapes and places in such wonderful cinematic quality, thank you so very much for your work!! 🥰❤ This really is for heart and soul, but you also give me so much inspiration for stories and tales! And the music you chose is so very magical, and it fits so fantastically and lovely, one could watch again and again - which I will do and never forget to vote although I have already done it with another acount. I decided to subscribe also with this account. You might know or recognize me, I sadly hadn`t been here for some months, toally busy with lectoring and building up my own channel and also fought with much illness. I`ll give you a little hint, maybe you do remember ... the two oaks in front of my balcony which they brutally cut down to the stump in last winter are sprouting everywhere now, directy from the cuts but also from the bark! They grow and green again with all the power of mother nature!🙃😊 Lovely, isn`t it.

Dr. Schultz: "It's a German legend. There's _always_ going to be a mountain in there, somewhere."

the fairytales were never meant for children, they are mytholigical tales, some based on real life back in the days. those were horrorstories from adults and for adults, when electricity and books werent not existing thousands of years back, to entertain themselves. oral tradition was strong , since first "ghost stories" in human history ever, esp in mesopotamia, just like the old folklore about Baalan yahwe, who later even made it to the old testament, lol. the words märchen and nightmare are similar.

I got it after only 57 seconds. 😀

Ah yes, German fairytales! 😁 The gentle art of lovingly traumatising your children! 🤗 And you named your van Floki because it is so f***ing low key, it's good for stealth camping, right? ☺

Yes. Read the original Brother Grim Tales... In most Storys... everyone DIES! Sometimes gruesome. Ot the Struwwelpeter... Schnipp Schnapp Daumen ab!

Still ❤😘

Yeah, lots of Grims fairy tales are dark origin and were made for adults and not all grims fariy tales are 100% german, but some are still good like the cat wit the shoes, which is not german fairy tale or the Heinzelmännchen zu Köln which is german origin or Frau Holle is also good or Tischlein deck dich or Knüppel aus dem Sack.

ich würde auch jedem davon abraten nach deutschland zu kommen....

Sometimes they come back - Stephen King...🤔🤣

i like you

Gemany is it not where half of Turkye lives

Ask that a real german

leave germany as long as you can - (or never leave bavaria) this country is doomed