Legends of Switzerland

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

This collection gathers traditional tales from across Swiss cantons, arranged by region, retelling local myths and folk narratives about saints, devils, giants, fairies, ghosts, knights, shepherds, and wondrous natural phenomena. Stories explain mountain storms, avalanches, lakes, and passes, celebrate rites and festivals, and preserve origin legends for place-names and customs. The retellings range from rustic folktales to medieval romances and poetic fancies, accompanied by historical notes and illustrations that evoke landscape and popular belief, offering an accessible survey of regional folklore and the cultural imagination shaped by Switzerland's dramatic scenery.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The Index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Spelling discrepancies between the Index and the referenced text were resolved in favor of the referenced text.