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"Rübezahl (Polish: Liczyrzepa, Duch Gór, Karkonosz, Rzepiór, or Rzepolicz; Czech: Krakonoš) is a folkloric mountain spirit (woodwose) of the Giant Mountains (Krkonoše, Riesengebirge, Karkonosze), a mountain range along the border between the historical lands of Bohemia and Silesia. He is the subject of many legends and fairy tales in German, Polish, and Czech folklore."
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Non-fiction
[edit]- "This perished spirit, so well known from our nursery tales," by John Russell in A Tour in Germany (1824) (external scan)
- "The Origin and Nomenclature of Playing Cards" by William Bell in The Art-Journal (1861) (external scan)
- "Rübezahl" in American Notes and Queries (1888) (external scan)
- "Who Was Rübezahl?" by One of a Thousand and Olive Oldschool in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (1888) (transcription project)
- "Rübezahl," in An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language (1891)
- "Rübezahl" by William Shepard Walsh in Heroes and Heroines of Fiction (1915) (external scan)
- "The Riesengebirge and Dresden" by Sabine Baring-Gould in Further Reminiscences 1864–1894 (1925) (external scan)
Fiction
[edit]- Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii by Johannes Praetorius (1662)
- "Tales of the Rübezahl", a selection of these stories edited by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1812)
- "Legends of Rübezahl" by Johann Karl August Musäus (1783)
- "The First" – Rübezahl and the Princess of Silesia
- "Second Legend" – Rübezahl and the Tailor
- "Third Legend" – Rübezahl and his Debtor
- "Fourth Legend" – Rübezahl and the Glass-Seller
- "Fifth Legend" – The Headless Rogue and the Countess
- "The Dance of the Dead" by Johann August Apel (1811)
- "The Field of Terror" by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué (1814)
- "The Stories of the Rübezahl" by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué (1816)
- "Fairy Tales and Legends from the Giant Mountains" by Henrik Steffens (1823)
- "Legends of Number-Nip" by the Misses Corbett (1826) (external scan)
- "A Legend of Number Nip" by the Misses Corbett (1828) (external scan)
- The Book of the Rübezahl by Johann Peter Lyser (1834)
- "Rübezahl" translated by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1847) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- "The Lord of the Hills" by Thomas Love Peacock (c. 1835) (external scan)
- Rübezahl by Rosalie Koch (1845)
- "‘Once Upon a Time’" translated by Charles Nordhoff (1858) (external scan)
- The Spirit of the Giant Mountains translated by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1864) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- Silesian Folk Tales (The Book of Rübezahl) retold by James Lee and James Thomas Carey (1915) IA
- "Rubezahl, the Prince of the Gnomes" retold by Francis Paul Palmer (c. 1854) (external scan)
- "The Friends of the Chimney-Elf" by Jane Goodwin Austin (1869) (external scan)
- Stories About Number Nip the Spirit of the Giant Mountains retold by Walter Grahame (1881) (external scan)
- "German Folk-Lore—A Fantasy" by Eleanor Adler (1904) (external scan)
Drama
[edit]- The Gnome-King; or, The Giant-Mountains by George Colman (1819) (external scan)
- "Rubezahl: A Petit Drama" by Rosalie Koch (1845) (external scan)
- Number Nip; or, Harlequin and the Gnome King of the Giant Mountain by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard (1866) (external scan)
- Rübezahl by Franz Abt and Hermann Francke (1884) (external scan)
Poetry
[edit]- "From the Mountains of Silesia" by Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath, translated by Mary Howitt (1844) (external scan)
- "Rubezahl" by William Emerson in Papers from My Desk and Other Poems (1873) (external scan)
See also
[edit]- "Rübezahl," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
- "Riesengebirge," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)