Portal:Rübezahl
"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."— Excerpted from Rübezahl on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Non-fictionEdit
- "Legends of Rubezahl" by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "Rübezahl," in An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language (1891)
FictionEdit
- Daemonologia Rubinzalii by Johannes Praetorius (1662)
- "Tales of the Rübezahl" translated by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1812)
- "Legends of Rubezahl; or, Number-Nip" translated by William John Thoms (1834) (external scan)
- "The Bewitched Staff" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "The Coach-Wheel" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "The Spring-Root" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "The Treasure-Seeker" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "How Rubezahl changed himself into an Ass" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "How Rubezahl punished a tyrannical Lord" translated by George Godfrey Cunningham (1829)
- "Tales of the Rübezahl" translated by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1812)
- "Legends of Rübezahl" by Johann Karl August Musäus (1783)
- "The Princess’s Flight" in Select Popular Tales from the German of Musaeus (1845)
- "The Rescued Lover" in Select Popular Tales from the German of Musaeus (1845)
- "The Countryman and his Family" in Select Popular Tales from the German of Musaeus (1845)
- "Rübezahl" summarised by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1847) (external scan)
- "Rübezahl" in The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- "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)
- Number Nip; or, Harlequin and the Gnome King of the Giant Mountain by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard (1866) (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 by Walter Grahame (1881) (external scan)
- Number Nip, or, The Spirit of the Giant Mountains by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1884) (external scan)
- Silesian Folk Tales (The Book of Rübezahl) by James Lee and James Thomas Carey (1915) IA
PoetryEdit
- "From the Mountains of Silesia" by Ferdinand Freiligrath, translated by Mary Howitt in The Living Age (1844) (start transcription)
- "Rubezahl" by William Emerson in Papers from My Desk and Other Poems (1873) (external scan)
See alsoEdit
- "Rübezahl," in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)
- "Riesengebirge," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)