Talk:Folklore of the Low Countries

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I am placing a "cleanup" flag on this page but am offering to do the work myself...when checking, more than half is legend or folklore and fairy tale, not mythology in the Wikipedia definition. I would like to suggest to change the page name to "Dutch mythology & folklore".. or else split it into 2 pages one for myth, the other for folklore, then all these listed topics sorted and grouped by type. See recently sorted "French mythology" and "French folklore" for example...it used to be just like Dutch mythology an alphabetical list... is ok with everyone if I work on this.. Goldenrowley 04:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

ok I think I'll rename and recategorize this page "Dutch folklore" as more accurate title. Folklore is a larger topic (while mythology is just one aspect of folklore) so you can include all this under folklore, later we can expand on mythology. Goldenrowley 05:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The following are NOT Dutch folklore or myth, they are fiction written by outside cultures:

  • Little Dutch Boy who saved Holland by putting his finger in the Dike -- FICTION - American writer, one of the episodes in novel named Hans Brinker and Silver Skates
  • Flying Dutchman -- NOT DUTCH folklore - Comes from an English play. Goldenrowley 06:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

This covers a lot of folklore for the last 1000 years, so is getting longer than I expected. I will be proposing to make and move the Dutch mythology section to a new page (keeping a placeholder but discussing mythology more fully on a new page), right now its just a list. Goldenrowley 01:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

The following two Grimm's fairy tales removed because Grimms brothers collected GERMAN stories...there is no "Nose Tree" story in Dutch (translation "Neus Boom"). How does one know these are "Dutch" stories? There was not a source to the page. I can only locate the German stories:

  • Frau Holle or Mother Hulda - published in "Grimms' Fairy Tales" (1812)
  • The Nose Tree or The Nose - published in "Grimms' Fairy Tales" (1812), deleted in later editions (I think possibly it means the renamed story St. Joseph in the Forest - at least one source calls that Grimm's Nose Tree Story) Goldenrowley 06:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)