Mystical Angels

What mystical/ paranormal creatures are there from Germany?

Like, leprecauns and banshees are from Ireland and such what thing is from Germany?

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1. Chichevache A monster that only fed on "good women" and was therefore mostly skin and bones because its food was extremely scarce! Doppelgänger" A doppelgänger is the ghostly — in some cases, the physical — double of a living person. The word "doppelgänger" is a loanword from German, in which language it is written (as with any German noun) with an initial capital letter: Doppelgänger. The word derives from Doppel ("double") and Gänger ("goer"). In English, the word is conventionally uncapitalized ("doppelgänger"). It is also common to drop the German diacritic, umlaut, from the letter "ä," writing "doppelganger," although in German the correct spelling without the umlaut would actually be "Doppelgaenger." In the vernacular, "Doppelgänger" has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person—most commonly an "evil twin"—or to bilocation. It is an exact replica of a specific human being. The word is also used to describe a phenomenon whereby one catches his own image out of the corner of his eye. In some traditions, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death, or a warning of an aproaching danger. A doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching health problem. Loreley According to German myth the rock Loreley over the Rhine by St. Goar inhabited a beautiful virgin named Loreley. The river by the rock was very narrow, and hence it was a dangerous place for ships to sale. Myth tells us Loreley endangered shippers by singing, because they would look up and subsequently sale their ships onto the rocks. After the death of a nobleman’s son, soldiers were sent to take Loreley. She saw them and called upon the river to aid her. Consequently, the rocks flooded and Loreley was carried away overseas, never to be seen again. Melusine Melusine was a feminine spirit of freshwater in sacred springs and rivers in European mythology. She is usually depicted as a kind of mermaid, and may even have wings in some pictures. One story tells us she was born to the fay Pressyne and a common man, and taken to the isle of Avalon when she was little to grow up there. When she heard of her human father betraying her mother, she sought revenge on him. Her mother heard of this and cursed her to look like a serpent from the waste down. She supposedly got scaled arms and fins for hands, and could never change back to her old form. Merpeople Many a myth represented merpeople as creatures having the head and upper body of a human, and a fishtail instead of legs. Female merpeople are known as mermaids, and male merpeople are known as mermen. They usually had great beauty and charm, and thereby lured sailor men to their deaths. Some stories include mermaids altering their form to resemble humans. In the old Disney movie ‘The Little Mermaid’, Ariel assumes human form to gain the love of human prince Eric.
2. Elves, usually found in forests, doppelgangers, river sirens, in Germany called Nixes, gnomes, like Rumpelstiltskin, and goblins are some which come to my mind and of course, Germany was full of witches.
3. Brownies
4. Gremlin is a German word for an elemental being of the Air. Who like the gremlin in the TwiLight Zone movie, tries to make airplanes crash.
5. A doppelganger is the only one I remember my Oma talking about.
6. Riesen (Giants), Oger (Ogers), Zwerge (Dwarfes), Elfen (Elves), Kobolde (Gremlins), Drachen (Dragons), Einhörner (Unicorns), Nymphen (Nymphes), Basilisken (Basilisks), Lindwürmer (Lindworms, some sort of minor dragon), Nachtvolk / Wilde Heer (Army of Ghosts), Wolpertinger (Man-Bear-Pig and friends), Gargoyles, Greifen (Griffons), Meerjungfrau (Mermaids), Nixe (Water spirit), Werwolf, Untote (Undead), Geister / Gespenster / Poltergeister (Ghosts), Klabautermann (Leprechaun on a ship), Troll, kopfloser Reiter / Untoter Wiedergänger (Headless Horsman), Golems, Wichtel (Leprechaun/Gremlin), Lich, Hexe (Witch), Walküre (Valkyrie). Basicly, all the stuff you know from the Brothers Grimm stories and some others. My list however is just the ones I remember, there are a more. And there are even a lot more if you count local and regional ones. For details on specific creatures, just google or search in wikipedia.