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Rübezahl

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Rübezahl (Liczyrzepa, Duch Gór, Karkonosz, Rzepiór, or Rzepolicz; Krakonoš) is a folkloric mountain spirit (woodwose) of the Giant Mountains (Krkonoše, Karkonosze, hence his name in Czech and Polish), a mountain range along the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. [1]

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  1. 103 relations: Amon Düül II, Arthur H. Bird, August Conradi, Beer, Berlín, El Salvador, Braunschweig, Brewery, Carl Maria von Weber, Cauldron, Charles Nordhoff (journalist), Children's television series, Czech folklore, Czech language, Czech Television, Czechs, Dschinghis Khan, Elizabeth F. Ellet, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Fairy tale, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), Fog, Folklore, Francis Edward Bache, Franz Abt, Franz Danzi, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Friedrich Kluge, Friedrich von Flotow, Frock, Görlitz, George Godfrey Cunningham, Gerda Mayer, German folklore, Germany, Gespensterbuch, Giant, Giant Mountains, Groß Pankow (Prignitz), Gustav Mahler, Hans Sommer (composer), Harp, Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Henrik Steffens, Hořice, Jan Klusák, Jelenia Góra, Joachim Witt, Johann August Apel, ... Expand index (53 more) »

  2. Czech folklore
  3. Earth spirits
  4. German legendary creatures
  5. Giants
  6. Gnomes
  7. Polish folklore
  8. Wild men

Amon Düül II

Amon Düül II (or Amon Düül 2, Pronunciation) are a German rock band formed in 1968.

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Arthur H. Bird

Arthur Homer Bird (23 July 1856 – 22 December 1923) was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany.

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August Conradi

August Conradi (27 June 1821 – 26 May 1873) was a German organist and composer.

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Beer

Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.

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Berlín, El Salvador

Berlin is a municipality in the Usulután Department, in El Salvador.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig or Brunswick (from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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Brewery

A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.

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Cauldron

A cauldron (or caldron) is a large pot (kettle) for cooking or boiling over an open fire, with a lid and frequently with an arc-shaped hanger and/or integral handles or feet.

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Charles Nordhoff (journalist)

Charles Nordhoff (31 August 1830 – 14 July 1901) was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer.

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Children's television series

Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed specifically for children.

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Czech folklore

Czech folklore is the folk tradition which has developed among the Czech people over a number of centuries.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

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Czech Television

Czech Television (italics; abbreviation: ČT) is a public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting six channels.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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Dschinghis Khan

Dschinghis Khan ("Genghis Khan") is a German Eurodisco pop band.

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Elizabeth F. Ellet

Elizabeth Fries Ellet (Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the real Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Austrian composer and conductor, who fled Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.

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Ferdinand Freiligrath

Ferdinand Freiligrath (17 June 1810 – 18 March 1876) was a German poet, translator and liberal agitator, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.

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Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)

During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg (Neumark) and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.

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Fog

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Francis Edward Bache

Francis Edward Bache (14 September 183324 August 1858) was an English organist and composer.

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Franz Abt

Franz Wilhelm Abt (22 December 1819 – 31 March 1885) was a German composer and choral conductor.

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Franz Danzi

Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi.

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué; (12 February 1777 – 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the Romantic style.

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Friedrich Kluge

Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856 – 21 May 1926) was a German philologist and educator.

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Friedrich von Flotow

Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer.

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Frock

Frock has been used since Middle English as the name for an article of clothing, typically coat-like, for men and women.

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Görlitz

Görlitz (Zgorzelec, Zhorjelc, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialects) is a town in the German state of Saxony.

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George Godfrey Cunningham

George Godfrey Cunningham (– 23 September 1860) was a Scottish writer, compiler, and translator.

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Gerda Mayer

Gerda Kamilla Mayer (9 June 1927 – 15 July 2021) was an English poet.

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German folklore

German folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gespensterbuch

The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres') is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and published in seven volumes between 1810 and 1817.

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Giant

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. Rübezahl and giant are giants.

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Giant Mountains

The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech:,, Riesengebirge), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). Rübezahl and Giant Mountains are Sudetes.

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Groß Pankow (Prignitz)

Groß Pankow (Prignitz) is a municipality in Prignitz district, Brandenburg, Germany.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Hans Sommer (composer)

Hans Sommer (born 20 July 1837 in Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 26 April 1922 in Braunschweig) was a German composer and mathematician.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Hellboy: Conqueror Worm

Hellboy: Conqueror Worm is a Hellboy comic book mini-series, written and drawn by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Henrik Steffens

Henrik Steffens (2 May 1773 – 13 February 1845), was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.

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Hořice

Hořice (Horschitz) is a town in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Jan Klusák

Jan Klusák (born 18 April 1934 in Prague as Jan Porges) is a contemporary Czech composer, author of film, television and incidental music.

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Jelenia Góra

Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia.

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Joachim Witt

Joachim Witt (born 22 February 1949) is a German rock musician and actor.

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Johann August Apel

Johann August Apel (17 September 1771 – 9 August 1816) was a German writer and jurist.

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Johann Karl August Musäus

Johann Karl August Musäus (29 March 1735 – 28 October 1787) was a German author.

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Johannes Praetorius (writer)

Johannes Praetorius (latinization of Hans Schultz; also called Praetorius Zeitlingensis to differentiate him from others with the same pen name; October 22, 1630, Zethlingen – October 25, 1680, Leipzig) was a German writer and historian.

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Josef Richard Rozkošný

Josef Richard Rozkošný (21 September 1833 – 3 June 1913) was a Czech composer and pianist.

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Joseph Schuster (composer)

Joseph Schuster (11 August 174824 July 1812) was a German composer.

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Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad, formerly also spelled Carlsbad in English) is a spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (South Franconian: Kallsruh) is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants.

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Kassel

Kassel (in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, in central Germany.

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Krkonošské pohádky

Krkonošské pohádky (literally Giant Mountains' Fairy Tales) is a Czech children's television series about Krakonoš, the mythical ruler of the Giant Mountains.

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Legend

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.

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Lightning

Lightning is a natural phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both in the atmosphere or one in the atmosphere and one on the ground, temporarily neutralizing these in a near-instantaneous release of an average of between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy, depending on the type.

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Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr (5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig was a German composer, violinist and conductor.

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Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia (Dolny Śląsk; Dolní Slezsko; Niederschlesien; Dolny Ślōnsk; Delnja Šleska; Dolna Šlazyńska; Niederschläsing; Silesia Inferior) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Lubań

Lubań (Lauban; Lubáň), sometimes called Lubań Śląski (Silesian Lubań; Lubań Šlešćina); is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwest Poland.

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Mark Lemon

Mark Lemon (30 November 1809, in London – 23 May 1870, in Crawley) was the founding editor of both Punch and The Field.

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Mary Catherine Rowsell

Mary Catherine Rowsell (29 December 183915 June 1921) was an English novelist, author of children's fiction, and dramatist.

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Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt (12 March 1799 – 30 January 1888) was an English poet, the author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.

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Middle High German

Middle High German (MHG; Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhdt., Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages.

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Misses Corbett

The Misses Corbett were sisters Walterina Cunningham (died 1 April 1837) and Grace Corbett (– 11 June 1843).

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Moritz von Schwind

Moritz von Schwind, c. 1860. Moritz von Schwind (21 January 1804 – 8 February 1871) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna.

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Odin

Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.

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Offenbach am Main

Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main.

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Otfried Preußler

Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled Otfried Preussler; both; born Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author.

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Paganism

Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.

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Pasticcio

In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Rain

Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.

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Rübezahl (1957 film)

Rübezahl (Rübezahl – Herr der Berge / a.k.a. Rübezahl, der Herr der Berge) is a 1957 West German film directed by Erich Kobler.

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Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neisse

Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neisse is a 1904 opera in 4 acts by Hans Sommer to a libretto by Eberhard König based on the Rübezahl fairy tale.

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Rübezahl's Wedding

Rübezahl's Wedding (German: Rübezahls Hochzeit) is a 1916 German silent fantasy drama film directed by Rochus Gliese and Paul Wegener and starring Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, and Georg Jacoby.

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Robert Reinick

Robert Reinick (22 February 1805 – 7 February 1852) was a German painter and poet, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silesian German

Silesian (Silesian: Schläsisch, Schläs’sch, Schlä’sch, Schläsch, Schlesisch), Silesian German or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct German dialect spoken in Silesia.

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Singspiel

A Singspiel (plural: Singspiele) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera.

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Sněžka

Sněžka or Śnieżka (Schneekoppe, Snežka) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Giant Mountains.

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Snow

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.

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Sour cereal soup

A sour cereal soup is a Slavic traditional soup made with various types of cereals such as rye, wheat and oats, which are fermented to create a sourdough-like soup base and stirred into a pot of stock which may or may not contain meat such as boiled sausage and bacon, along with other ingredients such as hard-boiled eggs, potatoes and dried mushrooms.

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Sourdough

Sourdough or sourdough bread is a bread made by the fermentation of dough using wild lactobacillaceae and yeast.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Thomas Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes (13 April 176024 December 1808) was an English physician and scientific writer.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.

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Thunder

Thunder is the sound caused by lightning.

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Trickster

In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior.

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Trieste

Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.

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Trutnov

Trutnov (Trautenau) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.

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Večerníček

Večerníček (meaning "little bedtime story" Czech and Slovak) is a television program for children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Volksmärchen der Deutschen

Volksmärchen der Deutschen (original spelling: Volksmährchen der Deutschen) is an early collection of German folk stories retold in a satirical style by Johann Karl August Musäus, published in five volumes between 1782 and 1787.

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Weather

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

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Wild Hunt

The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif occurring across various northern, western and eastern European societies, appearing in the religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs (motif E501 per Thompson). Rübezahl and Wild Hunt are medieval legends.

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Wild man

The wild man, wild man of the woods, or woodwose/wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands. Rübezahl and wild man are German legendary creatures, medieval legends, Slavic legendary creatures and wild men.

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Wilhelm Würfel

Wilhelm Würfel, aka Wenzel Würfel (Václav Vilém Würfel, Wilhelm Wacław Würfel; May 6, 1790 - March 23, 1832) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor.

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William Hazlitt (registrar)

William Hazlitt (26 September 181123 February 1893) was an English lawyer, author, and translator, best known for his Classical Gazetteer and for overseeing the posthumous publication and republication of many of the works of his father, the critic William Hazlitt.

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William Thoms

William John Thoms (16 November 1803 – 15 August 1885) was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846.

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Yeti (album)

Yeti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970 on Liberty (Germany: LBS 83359/60 X; United Kingdom: LSP 101) as a double LP.

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See also

Czech folklore

Earth spirits

German legendary creatures

Giants

Gnomes

Polish folklore

Wild men

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rübezahl

Also known as Krakonos, Krakonoš, Liczyrzepa, Ribesal, Ruebezahl.

, Johann Karl August Musäus, Johannes Praetorius (writer), Josef Richard Rozkošný, Joseph Schuster (composer), Karlovy Vary, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Krkonošské pohádky, Legend, Lightning, Louis Spohr, Lower Silesia, Lubań, Mark Lemon, Mary Catherine Rowsell, Mary Howitt, Middle High German, Misses Corbett, Moritz von Schwind, Odin, Offenbach am Main, Otfried Preußler, Paganism, Pasticcio, Prague, Rain, Rübezahl (1957 film), Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neisse, Rübezahl's Wedding, Robert Reinick, Silesia, Silesian German, Singspiel, Sněžka, Snow, Sour cereal soup, Sourdough, Switzerland, Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Love Peacock, Thunder, Trickster, Trieste, Trutnov, Večerníček, Volksmärchen der Deutschen, Weather, Wild Hunt, Wild man, Wilhelm Würfel, William Hazlitt (registrar), William Thoms, Yeti (album).