Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wolf of Magdeburg


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The result was   delete. The Bushranger One ping only 23:36, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Wolf of Magdeburg

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The article uses but one reference, no inline citations. A google search turns up no evidence of the existence of the legend described in the article. Almost 30 years of living in Magdeburg, I have never encountered the story or anything similar. Madcynic (talk) 23:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete I rooted around considerably on Google. It's not mentioned in Grimm's Sagen, nor in Wilhelm Hertz' Der Werwolf: Beitrag zur Sagengeschichte, nor in Wilhelm Leinung and Rudolf Stumvoll's Aus Magdeburgs Sage und Geschichte. It does appear at length in Barb Karg's The Girl’s Guide to Werewolves and is mentioned in Konstantinos' Werewolves: The Occult Truth, but neither of these is an RS and both postdate the Wikipedia article (2009, 2010). It is however "A Lycanthropous Brook" in Elliott O'Donnell's Werwolves (2007 reissue of 1912 book, link goes to first page of story), where the hero is Count van Beber and his wife's name is Hilda. Those are also the versions of the names in Konstantinos, so I think that was his source. O'Donnell also has the fatal drink occur in the Harz Mountains, so there may be Harz folklore behind the story; but the total absence in folklore books makes me think fiction and since it isn't famous as fiction, but has merely apparently reached fakelore status, it doesn't meet the notability standards.--Yngvadottir (talk) 21:24, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete couldn't find it searching auf Deutsch, concur with Yngvadottir that it probably isn't folklore. MLA (talk) 21:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Yngvadottir. Edward321 (talk) 14:13, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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