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Robin’s Nest Treehouse Hotels. A secluded getaway cozily settled up on a forested mountain. It offers a nice and quet stay in one of three rustic treehouses. Storytelling by the bonfire and fresh bread every morning - all included! Located in Hesse, Germany.
trans-masc-aizawa asked:
useless-germanyfacts answered:
it’s just the common believe among us all that all ppl called Kevin (or chantal) are not so intelligent humans
This prejudice originated probably from a surge in popularity of the name Kevin after the film “Home alone”.
There was an experiment in which teachers were given identical essays written by a real high school student with the only difference of the author’s name. For one group of teachers, the essay was written by a “Kevin”, for the other group by a “Maximilian”. “Kevin’s” essay was graded on average almost one mark worse than “Maximilian’s”.
In Vienna, it is now possible for bearers of the name “Kevin” to change their name for a reduced fee (50 € instead of 300 €), because “the name could lead to unacceptable disadvantages in economic or social relations”.
this is incredible
I love how the ability to command demons to do one’s bidding used to be a common attribute of saints in popular culture, but then we decided that trafficking with demons wasn’t very saintly after all and quietly scrubbed that element out of all the saintly folklore – except for Santa Claus.
yea but to be fair we stopped associating elves with demons a while ago.
Thanks to pulp fantasy demons and fairies have sort of become their own ecological niche.
I’m not referring to the elves – I’m talking about the explicitly demonic helper figures that appear in many Santa Claus myths, like the Krampus, Knecht Ruprecht or Black Peter (the latter of whom is admittedly more often represented as a racist caricature today, but was originally depicted as a chained devil).

