Legends from the Swiss Alps

The Alps have always been the prime icon of Swissness. Often idealised or aetheticised, this world of high peaks shrouded in clouds, of dark forests and green meadows, has generated a wealth of local myths and legends. Collected by Swiss students of Chinese at the University of Zurich as a pendant of their study of the ghost world in Chinese films, the seventy-five legends published in this collection reveal the co-existence of the real and the imaginary in the Swiss Alpine world.