Excerpt from Das Habichtsfraulein: Eine Dorfgeschichte Aus Dem Thuringer Wald Apart from their charm of characterization, these tales excel in being valuable contributions to folk-lore. Although essentially a modern man, Baumbach's liberal ism does not keep him from lingering tenderly and lov ingly over the precious traditions of the past; he finds the mission of his life in carrying over into modern times whatever quaint customs, antiquated sayings, odd superstitions, and curious evidences of paganism still linger amid the people of the more secluded valleys of his mountain home, and which were yet more strongly marked before the civilizing influence of the locomotive had time to rub the paint from the picturesque old cus toms and conditions of Thuringian country life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.