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<blockquote data-quote="Jupp" data-source="post: 2309071" data-attributes="member: 20804">Ok, I didn't find anything usefull in English, but a ton of stuff in German :/I'll post it anyway in case someone wants to see what garbage comes out when you throw it through Google Language Tools&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <a href="http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/schweiz/sagen_schweiz.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/schweiz/sagen_schweiz.htm</a>SAGEN.at - Sagen aus der Schweiz<a href="http://www.kulturbeo.ch/brauchtum/sagen_legenden.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.kulturbeo.ch/brauchtum/sagen_legenden.pdf</a>A very big collection of Swiss legends and tales, in German again. You have dwarves and gnomes in every second story (the one where the dwarves bury an old crone alive together with a bottle of wine and a piece of bread is a nasty one&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />&nbsp; ). One thing you have to watch out is that Gnomes and Dwarves can be the same around here. Depending on the area some people call them gnomes or little folks or Bergmannli or Wichtel or whatever. But most of the time its all the same.The only more or less inforamtive page in English with many links to good pages is this one here:<a href="http://www.beryl-the-gnome.co.uk/lowdown.htm" target="_blank">http://www.beryl-the-gnome.co.uk/lowdown.htm</a>Edit: In 1941 there was a book called &quot;The three sneezes and other Swiss tales&quot; by Roger Duvoisin, perhaps the local library has it ?Also another great source I've use several times before for international folklore tales:<a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html" target="_blank">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html</a>There are several Swiss tales in there</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jupp, post: 2309071, member: 20804"] Ok, I didn't find anything usefull in English, but a ton of stuff in German :/ I'll post it anyway in case someone wants to see what garbage comes out when you throw it through Google Language Tools :p [url]http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/schweiz/sagen_schweiz.htm[/url] SAGEN.at - Sagen aus der Schweiz [url]http://www.kulturbeo.ch/brauchtum/sagen_legenden.pdf[/url] A very big collection of Swiss legends and tales, in German again. You have dwarves and gnomes in every second story (the one where the dwarves bury an old crone alive together with a bottle of wine and a piece of bread is a nasty one :] ). One thing you have to watch out is that Gnomes and Dwarves can be the same around here. Depending on the area some people call them gnomes or little folks or Bergmannli or Wichtel or whatever. But most of the time its all the same. The only more or less inforamtive page in English with many links to good pages is this one here: [url]http://www.beryl-the-gnome.co.uk/lowdown.htm[/url] Edit: In 1941 there was a book called "The three sneezes and other Swiss tales" by Roger Duvoisin, perhaps the local library has it ? Also another great source I've use several times before for international folklore tales: [url]http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html[/url] There are several Swiss tales in there [/QUOTE]

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