Portal:Rübezahl

Rübezahl as a tailed demon

Non-fiction

• "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

• Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii by Johannes Praetorius (1662)
  • "Tales of the Rübezahl", a selection of these stories edited by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1812)
    • "Rübezahl Turns into a Donkey"
    • "Rübezahl Fools a Junker"
    • "Rübezahl Sells Pigs"
    • "Rübezahl Conjures Up Some Cow and Ox Heads"
    • "Rübezahl Has a Garment Made"
    • "Rübezahl Becomes a Wood Cutter"
    • "Rübezahl Turns into a Messenger's Staff"
    • "Rübezahl Turns Leaves into Ducats"
• "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)
  • "Tale 1" – The Spring-Root
  • "Tale 2" – The Tricks of Rübezahl
  • "Tale 4" – The Bewitched Staff
  • "Tale 5" – The Coach-Wheel
  • "Tale 6" – The Treasure-Seeker
• "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

• 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

• "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

• "Rübezahl," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
• "Riesengebirge," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)