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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.""Rübezahl," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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)
- "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)
- "Traditions populaires de Riesengebirge, (mont des géants, en silésie.) Rübezahl" written anonymously in Revue des Etats du nord (1835)
- "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)