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@juergen_hubert If two pioneers of the field did something that would be considered bad practice nowadays, that doesn't mean you have to follow them 
Not excluding any tales is a valid decision, but you should be transparent about it. And if you have reasons to doubt the provenance of a tale, just tell them so they have something to work with
@juergen_hubert Even if you go by "Whatever appears in 19th century folk tale collections is a folk tale", it would probably be useful for your readers to have these tales flagged as probably not conforming to a narrower definition of "folk tale".
@juergen_hubert This tale (and a couple of others you shared recently) make me wonder about your definition of "folk tale". I would expect folk tales to be stories from an oral tradition and I expect written texts of folk tales to be faithful-ish recordings of the tales as they are or were told. This one, however, is taken from a written source which in turn has lifted the anecdote from medieval annals, which are a completely different genre with completely different conventions.
Gesundheitshinweis: Der Verzehr eines Adligen deckt den durchschnittlichen Monatsbedarf an Palaststoffen.
@juergen_hubert What would that game be about? Pathfinder, like all DnD-like games, is about killing things, taking their stuff, and getting rich and powerful in the process. That doesn't really fit the kind of stories that are told in the extant German folklore. BRP doesn't really know what it's about, so ...
Most folklore is rooted in a place, but the time isn't actually that important most of the time. I wouldn't go for a historic setting with folklore tweaks, but go full on folklore:
@juergen_hubert What I'm trying to say is that with that narrow angle you probably won't do the complex histories and contexts of those tales justice. How do we know, for example, that a tale about Pilate founding a city is part of that "fetishism" and not of a way older Christian tradition?
@juergen_hubert This might be a me-problem, but there's two words with a lot of baggage in that theme: To me, the "our" bit sounds a lot like late 19th century nationalist/jingoist history teachers; and "appropriated" has a quite negative connotation. I don't know whether that is what you were going for
Apart from that, a lot of the informants for the collections you are translating from will have been alive at the abdication of the last Roman emperor
@juergen_hubert What does that theme mean?
@werdenfels Ich würde mal, basierenden auf meinen Interaktionen mit Jüd*innen und Israelis, behaupten: Das machen viel mehr Leute als du denkst. Und: https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/dirigent-shani-ausgeladen-100.html
Sowas würde nicht passieren, wenn die Kollektivschuld nicht für genug Menschen zumindest plausibel wäre