The EUROPA 2022 stamps of Jersey will be issued on 16 March 2022.
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The EUROPA 2022 stamp of France will be issued on 9 May 2022.
“Mélusine is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down.”
Wikipedia
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The EUROPA 2022 stamp of Czechia will be issued on 6 April 2022.
“According to a legend, Přemysl was a free peasant who attracted the notice of Libuše, daughter of a certain Krok, who ruled over a large part of Bohemia. Libuše succeeded her father, and her councillors demanded that she marry, but because Přemysl was not a nobleman she recounted a vision in which they would follow a horse let loose at a junction, and follow it to find her future husband, making it appear as if it was the will of fate not her own wish. Two versions of the legend exist, one in where they are to find a man ploughing a field with one broken sandal, and another in which the man would be sitting in the shade of a single tree, eating from an iron table (his plough). They did so and found Přemysl exactly as foretold.”
Wikipedia.
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It would be great if people from the various countries could tell us which myths are depicted.
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I’m not from Sweden but I think that it’s a tradition there that girls pick seven different flowers on midsummer’s eve and put them under their pillow. At night they will dream about their future husband. On the swedish stamp I see a midsummer-pole and seven different flowers, so that might fit 
About the german stamp: No idea 
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That’s correct, I saw that mentioned somewhere else. The Gibraltar ones represent the Pillars of Hercules, as the straight of Gibraltar is called that today, although there have been many straights that have or might have been called that through the times.
Could the German be Siegfried the Dragon Killer?
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There was a discussion in the german section for the forum about that theory but if I remember correctly, one came to the conclusion that Siegfried’s dragon had only one head. But yes, it could be a new interpretation of that 
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The EUROPA 2022 stamps of San Marino will be issued on 5 May 2022.
Those stamps depict the protagonists of the legend according to which one day, the pious man Marino, coming back from the field in the cave where he lived, saw a big bear near what was left of his faithful donkey, which had become food for the beast. Unafraid of the animal’s size and danger, he began to talk to the bear, telling it that it should take the donkey’s place and help him in the fields. And so he did.
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The EUROPA 2022 stamps of Denmark will be issued on 19 May 2022.
Hardly any other place in Denmark than Bornholm has such a strong tradition of legends and tales connected with the supernatural world.
The rocky landscape is said to be inhabited by the underworld, who revealed themselves to the locals over the centuries.
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The EUROPA 2022 stamp of Monaco will be issued on 9 May 2022.
The Monaco Stamp Office has chosen to depict François Grimaldi, known as Malizia, who, on the night of 8 January 1297, disguised as a Franciscan monk, took back the fortress of Monaco from the Ghibellines by deception, thus establishing the Grimaldi dynasty.
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The EUROPA 2022 stamps of Switzerland will be issued on 5 May 2022.
William Tell - The story of a hero who had to shoot an apple placed on his child’s head is found in many different European collections of legends. But it was here in Switzerland where it became a fundamental part of the legend of how the nation was founded. William Tell achieved fame far beyond national borders as the courageous and fearless main character in Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 play of the same name. After the foundation of the federal state in 1848, William Tell became a major figure in shaping the identity of the emerging nation.
The young illustrator and graphic artist Elena Knecht has taken a fresh look at this subject. She sought to give a modern twist to the folk tale and to present it in a contemporary style.
The dramatic scene with the pierced apple probably comes from Nordic legends in the early Middle Ages. Travelling monks are believed to have brought these stories to Switzerland. The pierced apple is one of the most memorable and famous scenes in the William Tell story.
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Really wonderful 
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Slovakia 
