Editing Mondegreen (section)

===German===
Mondegreens are a well-known phenomenon in German, especially where non-German songs are concerned. They are sometimes called, after a well-known example, {{lang|de|Agathe Bauer}}-songs ("[[The Power (Snap! song)|I got the power]]", a song by [[Snap!]], misinterpreted as a German female name).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.104.6rtl.com/comedys/die-agathe-bauer-songs/agathe-bauer-songs-id153925.html|title=Agathe Bauer Songs|publisher=104.6RTL|language=de|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=24 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924033657/https://www.104.6rtl.com/comedys/die-agathe-bauer-songs/agathe-bauer-songs-id153925.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antenneunna.de/programm/aktionen/eventarchiv/art762,467038|title=Agathe Bauer-Songs – Archiv|publisher=antenne unna|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=24 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924033750/https://www.antenneunna.de/programm/aktionen/eventarchiv/art762,467038|url-status=live}}</ref> Journalist Axel Hacke published a series of books about them, beginning with {{lang|de|Der weiße Neger Wumbaba}} ("The White Negro Wumbaba", a mishearing of the line {{lang|de|der weiße Nebel wunderbar}} from "{{lang|de|[[Der Mond ist aufgegangen]]|italic=no}}").<ref>{{cite book|last=Hacke|first=Axel|title=Der weiße Neger Wumbaba|date=3 August 2004|publisher=Verlag Antje Kunstmann|language=de|isbn=978-3-88897-367-3}}</ref>

In urban legend, children's paintings of [[nativity scene]]s, occasionally include next to the Child, Mary, Joseph, and so on, an additional, laughing creature known as the {{lang|de|Owi}}. The reason is to be found in the line {{lang|de|Gottes Sohn! O wie lacht / Lieb' aus Deinem göttlichen Mund}} ("God's Son! Oh, how does love laugh out of Thy divine mouth!") from the song "[[Silent Night]]". The subject is {{lang|de|Lieb}}, a poetic contraction of {{lang|de|die Liebe}} leaving off the final {{lang|de|-e}} and the definite article, so that the phrase might be misunderstood as being about a person named {{lang|de|Owi}} laughing "in a loveable manner".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/falsch-verstandene-weihnachtslieder-a-946934.html|title=Falsch verstandene Weihnachtslieder – Oh du gröhliche|last=Maack|first=Benjamin|date=16 December 2010|work=[[Spiegel Online]]|language=de|access-date=23 September 2018|location=Forum|archive-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911071431/http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/falsch-verstandene-weihnachtslieder-a-946934.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.zeit.de/1972/50/es-weihnachtet-sehr|title=Es weihnachtet sehr|newspaper=Die Zeit|date=22 November 2012|publisher=[[Zeit Online]]|language=de|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=24 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924033644/https://www.zeit.de/1972/50/es-weihnachtet-sehr|url-status=live}}</ref> {{lang|de|Owi lacht}} has been used as the title of at least one book about Christmas and Christmas songs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moser|first=Franz|title=Owi Lacht: Alte und neue Volkslieder zur Weihnacht|date=October 2006|publisher=Denkmayr, E|language=de|isbn=978-3-902488-79-4}}</ref>