Frau Holle the ancient Germanic Goddess
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- Sources & Further Reading
Books:
Goddess Holle by Gunivortus Goos
Frau Holle by the Grimm Brothers
Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm (usually sold as series)
The Old Magic of Christmas by Linda Raedisch
Free resources:
• Frau Holle - Botschaft... (in German, automatic English subtitles available)
www.academia.edu/49362123/Div...
www.germanicmythology.com/orig...
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I’m African American but discovered through family history my great grandparents were German, it excites me learning some of this
I was an adopted child, I got a dna test to find my heritage and ancestors. I thought I was largely Italian and found out I’m VERY German. It’s been disheartening seeing how much has been lost over the centuries. Frau Holle is so special and I’m glad she was not stomped out, her image lived through the grimms fairytales giving us the pieces to put back together. I feel her deep in my bones🥹
Are you Sicilian too? My grandpa was from Chiusa sclafani near Corleone and bisacquino.We did a dna test. we only got 5% southern italian and the biggest parts were french and Frankish German. It hurts too, but it also means that my Sicani genes are so powerful it overrides the other stuff lol Also got Greek and Egyptian too luckily 😅
In fact, Frau Holle is well placed in the German Alps to this day. and the cult of her remains alive to this day. and she is one of the Goddess that I worship a lot and I have a love and affection attachment to her and respect
It's nice to see that the German and Dutch tales of frau Holle are a like.
Thank you for sharing!
It is amazing hearing of our Germanic gods and goddesses.
Love this! Holda is my Witch Mother and I could listen to stories about her all day. I dedicated to her this last Solstice. It was time.
Hukde/Frau Holle is related to the Slavic Baba Yaga - esp. the story of a young woman, her wicked sister, spinning, and a witch grandma. Vasilisa Preskrasnaya y Baba Yaga (Very Beautiful Vasilisa and Grandma Yaga) is about a stepdaughter who is abused by her stepmom and stepsisters (root of Cinderella), who is sent to fetch a candle at night to Baba Yaga's house - who was a feared forest being. Vasilisa is hard-working and cooperative, and accomplishes impossible tasks with the help of a magic poppet her departed mother left to her. This story goes back to times before the dispersal of early Europeans because it is ahared all the way to Iranic cousins.
about the moral: Its not only work hard and be rewarded. One of them is kind and always helping everyone hence why she woks so much. The other one is spoiled and rude.
The task that being done are always started by aksing to be done. Like the bread literally says im done take me out. one does and one doesnt.
This was so interesting and informative!! Love learning new things related to my German heritage! She seems like a goddess I need to continue to learn about. Thank you 🙏🏻💜
So happy so find your videos! I took a dna test to find out my heritage and dicovered i am mainly german and cree, however i am adopted so my education in german folk practice has been based largely in books and online sources. Which makes it hard because i dicovered a lot was lost. Im so elated to have found your content. Thank you for making it!
I was never allowed to learn about these gods and goddesses, I grew up in a Christian house. So learning about her and hearing this story is so nice and very interesting. Thank you for teaching us all hula. It means a lot to people like me who don’t know anything about her.
I would love to see this be a series! amazing video.
Blessed bee
Love watching your brilliant videos keep dropping them I'm from england learning about Germanic paganism and about my ancestors roots and the culture love to the pagan community worldwide🌲❤🌼🍁🍂
That was so interesting to learn! I'd like see more videos about German or Celtic gods and goddesses, as they are not so well-known as Scandic for example
I love this so much, thanks
Thank you! This was so I beautiful and interesting to learn about ❤🎉
I just named my House/Cottage BERCHTA COTTAGE. Loved this video - full of great info on her. Thanks. Happy Yule!
Danke für deine Recherche
Immer gerne 😁🙏🏼
i absolutely loved learning about this!! I am very grateful for your content and all of the work put into it
for bringing about frau holle. It's the Goddess that I worship a lot and I have a statue of her, and it's incredible to see someone bring content about her. so much so that I ate it today in the Bavarian Alps, it is well-known in Germany
Ooh I don't know much about her at all, I'm going to have to go do some more research now! Thank you!
Ooooo didnt know we had our own hecate. ❤ LOVE. thanks for the video!
😆 darauf hatte ich schon gewartet 💚👌
thank you for making this video! i’m trying to reconnect to my family roots in germany and accessible resources like this are so helpful!!
I read somewhere that Frau Holle as a young girl had married the Lord of Winter after she fulfilled his riddle - "Neither afoot nor astride, neither barefoot nor shod" - by riding into his town/castle by sledding behind goats either in stockings or with one shoe off and one shoe on. Something like that. But I've never been able to locate the story (maybe because I was using the wrong language or something?) Anyone else seen that one?
Pushkin wrote Vasilisa Preskrasnaya, illustrated by Boris Bilibin. It is a very similar story with Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is an ancient forest deity who is later a 'witch.' You can see it is more full eastward with original pagan symbols and elements, and to the west, it becomes a modernized shell of the story as Cinderella. Frau Holle is in the middle - still with magic, but missing many elements found eastward - but also adding the well element, a regional element in central Europe and Scandos.
Wat een leuk kanaal. Ik wil al langere tijd over Holla leren. Misschien zijn Holla en Nehallenia met elkaar verbonden. En zijn het oude Vanier. Mijn theorie is dat de "goden" waar we nog minder van weten dan de huidig bekende pantheons, verslagen vokeren waren, en dus werd een deel van hun pantheon overgenomen, dat wat overeen kwam met het pantheon van de overwinnaar. Dat verklaart in mijns inziens bijvoorbeeld Ymir, Odin, Hoenir en Ve, iets wat je terug ziet in Griekse mthologie, met de schepping van hun "goden".
Very interested in this topic! This was also and still is a very important goddess in the Netherlands (in friesland) we call her Vrouw Holle! Grew up with lots of storys about this goddess❤️
Weren’t the most important gods by the frisii Fosite (Forsite) and Baduhenna?
@@HYDROCARBON_XD i just grew up with stories about Frau Holle (in dutch vrouw Holle) and the other Goddesses werent really mentioned in my childhood
What deities so you worship? Love this video thank you! Blessed Be 💜😊
_Nice to be acquainted_
Hii
@@EllaHarrison greetings and respect
thank you for sharing, i learned something new today 😊
Thank you for this video! I was born in Landstuhl (military) but moved back to the states when I was young. I’ve been learning German and it’s so great for an interest of mine and my practice to interconnect ✨
Oh that is amazing! Learning German is definitely no easy task so well done!
I was born in Heidelberg but I am of Native Indigenous(army brat). My mother named me after Berchtesgaden (pretty much ha ha) because it was a beautiful place and loved the name. For years I was made fun of for this. We had no idea what it meant. Even in the early days of the internet on Wikipedia there was no mention of Berchta in regards to Berchtesgaden. So fast forward I have grown to fall in love with my name. I have only heard of one other person having it, who was an elderly lady that I never met. Berchta's story is fascinating although I am more partial to the pre Christian bits of her journey. Thank you so much for this video!
I knew the "Mother Holly" fairy tale, but I never knew about Frau Holle until I casually stopped at Frau Holle's pond on the Meißner in Hesse. It was just a stop to get out and walk around during a scenic drive... I had no idea of the significance of the place. Learning about Holle was such a surprise! I was immediately captivated by her, and have been devoted ever since.
Thank you. It is very interesting and I enjoy learning. My grandfather was German and my grandmother was Austrian/ Hungarian. Is there a relationship of Frau Holle and Mother Goose?
Thank you for watching! And yes I believe so, I have read a bit about that but honestly I am not that well acquainted with Mother Goose to really give any information at the moment
Its not just germanic. we have her in the netherlands too. the Houwvrouw
I've always wondered about something. "Frau” (Mrs.) and “Fräulein” (Miss) lends us to believe she was married. Any information on this??
It’s likely more a reference to age, so ein Fräulein is someone younger usually, whereas Frau is in reference to an adult - today and even in the last decades the term Fräulein was not really used anymore and even considered disrespectful
However it is an interesting idea to consider, some Historians and scholars relate Frau Holle to Freya or Frigg in Norse mythology and in that case Odin would be her husband, or in a more continental German sense it would then be Wodan. Frau Holle does have several overlapping ‘tasks’ and associations with Odin/Wodan, such as leading the Wild Hunt
@@EllaHarrison thank you so much for your kind reply. 💓
This is great. Thank you for sharing information about her germanic origins! It's such a shame that most people seem to share scary stories about Perchta on the internet like she's some kind of an equivalent to the boogeyman. It's so fascinating to see how these old myths and believes make their return in our modern society. Especially if you grew up with these classic fairy tales and never knew about their origins. Vielen Dank für deine Arbeit! :-)
side note: I'm quite confused about your mention of "Deutsche Mythologie", since the two brothers most famous published work are the "Kinder und Hausmärchen". Is this just another title or an entirely seperate work?
It’s an entirely separate work and is academic in style, whereas the Kinder und Hausmärchen is - essentially - for childen, the Deutsche Mythology works are a very indepth and basically an encyclopaedia
@@EllaHarrison thank you very much! Are there any other sources that you could recommend?
I never new she was a goddess-
I just knew her from the fairy tail.
As a German this is such an amazing and affirming video to watch! I love Frau Holle as a goddess, she feels like home! Danke Dir!
Ps.: Do you believe that as Frau Holle is a supreme goddess of ancient and pre-Indo-European origin she might be connected to the goddess figurine Venus of Willendorf?
Ohhhh I love that thought that she might be! I can’t of course say for sure, but it makes sense in my mind! ♥️🙏🏼
@@EllaHarrison I would love for it to be true. 😌 Btw How do we know Frau Holle isn’t indo-european or older than indo-european presence in central Europe?
Hi, i am living in german near the mentioned "Meissner". It is actually not a village or town, but the mountain, that is refered here as the Frau Holle Berg. The pond you mentioned is really a pond on that mountain, with at least 2 statues of her. The larger wooden one shows her as a young woman, since the tale (rather one of the tales about that pond) is connected of her seducing youn men. The well you showed in your picture is as far i can tell a reference to the Brothers Grimm Tale, and as far the legend tells the original one in the Town of Vockerode at the foot of the mountain.
There are a lot of tales of Frau Holle around the area, from helping poor people , punishing mean ones (and that works quite similar, as pissing of Thor or Zeus sometimes), guiding lost wanderers, or maybe just seducing men like mentioned already and even some fertility rituals conencted to her.
There is an altair stone connected to her somewhere on the Meissner, that as far i have seen ,seems to be in use still.
Ja genau, der Brunnen ist auf die Brüder Grimm bezogen. Also Meißner ist ja doch ne Gemeinde? Aber gut zu wissen, dass die da nicht nur den Teich haben sonder halt auch gleich 2 Statuen. Den Altar muss ich mal googeln, Kassel ist halt grad nicht so um die Ecke aber vielleicht irgendwann mal als Besuch 😅
Thank You! I'd love to hear about ways You worship Her
AMAZING, I had no idea she was a goddesses all this time, i vee read this history when i was a child and i felt a deep connection with all aspects of that. Here in Brazil shes called "Dona Ola" and i always see her as a Granny sweet but rough, that one kind who would "be bad" for your own wellbeing. I love it! How do you see aspects of witchcraft on her history? Beyond the snow pillow of course kkkkkkkkk
The Calliach is pronounced "call-iy- ach" with the ach being that back of the throat sound you made that's common in both Scottish and German
sounds like Fasnacht
I just enjoy the mythological content of this video as a form of background entertainment while I am completely fallen into the real mythology of your presence, your beauty and your sugarsweet young-witchy aura. I like your passion for paganism and our deep european mystics.
And I would love to try a girlfriend like you 🧙♂️
Jes i am a man
I don't think that is where Holle came from. I think they combined a Norse goddess & a Celtic goddess that was deemed to have some sort of similar association- my best bet is Beira. The name is similar, Beira is an old woman & she is believed to be associated with Winter. Everything else about Holle seems to line up with Freya, except the name Holda. We know Volva carried sacred Distaffs because we found them in Germanic burials, so everything about the weaving is of Germanic origin. Freya is said to have her own afterlife realm that is described as a bountiful field. That's got to be what it is.
Now, I just have to work out what the Hulders in Scandanavian culture were & why the names crossed, because those are too well thought out to have come out of nowhere & have nothing in common with Frau Holle whatsoever, except in name.
Idk she sounds like an ancestor all of her own, but I agree. If she resembles anyone it would be hel. Only hel comes to me like a sister where as holle totally has grandmother energy. Thank you I’m going to do more research, as nothing happens by chance, and everything comes in divine time ❤️🙏🏻
So its only ok to be German if your a witch but not a Christian??
What
Rauhnächte start at solsttice, so the 21st.
It depends, usually its the 24/25th until epiphany so the 5/6th
@@EllaHarrison no, it doesn't. It starts at Solstice!
www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/panorama/rauhnaechte-2023-termine-bedeutung-und-braeuche-id36455047-amp.html
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raunacht
www.24garten.de/mein-garten/datum-braeuche-bedeutung-raeuchern-perchten-wilde-jagd-holle-waesche-rituale-rauhnaechte-90155161.html
Her description remind me oh Hekate's from "The secrets of Nickolas Flammel The immortal" book series🤩😤🥹😊