#WritersCoffeeClub 12 March: Happy Plant A Flower Day! What role does nature take in your stories?
German local legends are deeply embedded into their environment. As such, they often seek to explain the local environment and its origin - or at least to make it more interesting and/or magical.
Thus, magical plants, rock formations that were caused by the Devil or some sin of humans, and other forms of fantastic natural environments were common.
@juergen_hubert Some of the Finnish geological features (and geoglyphs) have been explained as works of ancient giants.
@elfbiter This happens a lot in Germany as well, especially with glacial erratics.
@juergen_hubert @elfbiter The town I grew up in was sorta across the river from a round mountain with a castle ruin that looked like an eyebrow if the mountain was a head, and it was explained as the little mountain range being Siegfried sleeping.