Perchta or Berchta ('Bertha'), also commonly known as Percht and other variations, was once known as a goddess in Alpine paganism in the Upper German...

Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae Frau Berchta, a purported deity and female equivalent of Berchtold proposed by Jacob...

480. Frau Holle (also known in various regions as Holla, Holda, Perchta, Berchta, Berta, or Bertha) was initially a pre-Christian female legendary figure...

figure Perchta or Berchta (English Bertha). Like the legends of "Bertha la fileuse" in France and the story of Mother Goose Berchta was associated with...

including Wodan (or "Woden"), Knecht Ruprecht (compare Krampus), Berchtold (or Berchta), and Holda (or "Holle"). The Wild Hunt is also known from post-medieval...

supported a derivation based on the legendary figure of Frau Perchta (Berchta), a woman (Holle < Holda 'well disposed, dear') with good and bad changing...

III, Count of Katzenelnbogen 6. Diether IV, Count of Katzenelnbogen 13. Berchta of Lichtenberg 3. Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen 14. Eberhard III, Count of...

Beorhtwynn meaning "bright joy". The name occurs as a theonym, surviving as Berchta, a figure in Alpine folklore connected to the Wild Hunt, probably an epithet...

Germanic later mythology, Holda (Frau Holle) and Perchta (Frau Perchta, Berchta, Bertha) were both known as goddesses who oversaw spinning and weaving...

61. Behrta as defined by Grimm, is more commonly known as Perchta or Berchta, per his description Chapter 31 p. 4 Marshall Jones Company 1930:221-222...

Christianized a day formerly associated with the pagan Germanic goddess Berchta ... Hanson, Joelle (13 December 2012). "Santa Lucia Day traditions". ELCA...

County of Montbéliard - Les Rois Mages (The Three Kings) in Roussillon - Berchta in Alsace  Georgia თოვლის ბაბუა tovlis babua (Snow Grandfather) 1 January[citation...

Swiss Society for Volkskunde in 1896. Berchtoldstag, festival in honour of Berchta or Berchtold. Fasnacht (or Fastnacht), a pre-Lenten carnival. Eis-zwei-Geissebei...

Countess Gerburg and Count Conrad and those on the north side are Countess Berchta and Count Theodoric. Two founder couples are standing across from each...

Schweizerisches Idiotikon Berchtelenstag; vol. XII 962–968, with note and Berchta, berchtelen; vol. IV 1538–1539, with notes. "Berchtold Day in Switzerland"...

customs Oliebollen (Dutch doughnut) – a Yule food related to the folklore of Berchta Public holidays in the Netherlands Wellerism Folklore of Belgium https://gallica...

and its various leaders are recounted, various heathen deities such as Berchta and Gwyn ap Nudd being cast out by their former worshippers in favor of...

was the son of Werner Gundoldingen. He was in his first marriage with Berchta of garden and later married Agnes von Moos. Werner was probably Gerber...

Switzerland, Savoy, Northern Italy, Slovenia), whose characters - Krampus, Berchta (Perchten), wild man - are part of an endangered, folklorized cultural...

others that are also found in other cultures, such as the German Frau Berchta and the Russian Babuška. A famous nursery rhyme is dedicated to the figure...