[He doesn't expect to hear a tale fully laid-out in the fashion of a bedtime story, but he has to hear a whole lot of nonsense before he's willing to write something off as likely to be completely meaningless.
So, he listens, horned head slightly canted, with silent attention and respect, until she has reached the story's conclusion. And he was right; it was not, in fact, completely meaningless.]
I imagine that often, because when it comes to monsters, that's the more common tale.
[A benevolent one would be the outlier, he thinks. The lucky escape, the day a murderer just didn't feel like killing.
What he says next is spoken in very correct Hochdeutsch, not native but studied in meticulous detail.]
I'd say that any Butzemann deserves caution until it's proven that it's undeserving of suspicion. To be called a Butzemann at all means that there's a reason, however tiny. If an enemy is simply maliciously lying about their nature... there's a reason one has enemies, too.
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So, he listens, horned head slightly canted, with silent attention and respect, until she has reached the story's conclusion. And he was right; it was not, in fact, completely meaningless.]
I imagine that often, because when it comes to monsters, that's the more common tale.
[A benevolent one would be the outlier, he thinks. The lucky escape, the day a murderer just didn't feel like killing.
What he says next is spoken in very correct Hochdeutsch, not native but studied in meticulous detail.]
I'd say that any Butzemann deserves caution until it's proven that it's undeserving of suspicion. To be called a Butzemann at all means that there's a reason, however tiny. If an enemy is simply maliciously lying about their nature... there's a reason one has enemies, too.