otmar's

Updated: January 6, 2026

Whether any such legend really lingers about the Kaatskill mountains I do not know; but I have a vehement suspicion that Washington Irving was indebted rather to Otmar's "Traditions of the Harz," a book published at Bremen in the year 1800.

Edwin Sidney Hartland - The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology