Volume one contains popular traditions collected and narrated by Otmar; local popular traditions from the Golden green, and northside of the Hartz; traditions narrated by Lewis Tieck, Gottschalk, Eberhardt, Bùˆsching; and traditions by M. M. Grimm, Lothar, La Motte Fouque, Langbien, Engel, and Schiller. Volume two contains The dumb lover, by Musaeus; The apparitionist, by Schiller; The sport of destiny; The criminal, or martyr to lost honour; The pleasant history of Reynard the fox; Howleglass, the merry jester; and history of that renowned sorcerer, Doctor Johannes Faustus.
