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joy.am · highland echoes · Song · 2025

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Bild des Tages: In der Rhön

[ebrithilbowser]

The story of the giant Mils

Two weeks ago we went hiking in the Rhön mountains with some family members, including my wive's grandmother who grew up there.

One of the most prominent mountains in this area is the extinct volcano Milseburg. Online, you can find various German websites telling about the giant Mils, who lived there in pre-christian times. When saint Gangolf went on mission in the area, the giant tried to fight against him. But when it became clear that Gangolf got more and more converts and paganism was on the way out, the giant commited suicide. Afterwards, the devil covered the dead giant with rocks, and this pile became the Milseburg.

But my wive's grandmother told us another story that I can't find anywhere online, at least not in this exact form. According to her, the giant hid a key to his treasure somewhere around the mountain, and if somebody finds it, the mountain opens and reveals the treasure.

There is a very similar story in Christian Ludwig Wucke's book "Sagen der mittleren Werra nebst den angrenzenden Abhängen des Thüringer Waldes und der Rhön" and Alexander Schöppner's "Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande", but according to those versions, it was Saint Gangolf himself who hid the treasure. According to this version, once a woman plucked a cowslip (Schlüsselblume in German, which means "cowslip") and in that moment, the mountain opened and revealed the treasure. But the woman got spooked and ran away, and when she returned, the mountain had closed again.

I think it's pretty cool to actually hear a traditional folk story orally from people who still know them, let alone a version that isn't available in the literature I could easily find.

Trivia I found while researching this: According to one legend, Milseburg is a corrupted version of "Melusinenburg", because once the well known snake-woman Melusine lived there.

[kevinwiesel]

Der Blick von der Wasserkuppe in die hessische Rhön

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Rhön, Germany (by Markus Stock)

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