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[–] juergen_hubert@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago

I suspect that there are quite a few of these in German folklore. I have collected more than a hundred German folk tales of saints and holy people over the last few years, but I haven't cross-referenced these with the list of canonical saints yet.