The Heimchen (sg., pl.) is a being from German folklore with several related meanings.
In the first place, Heimchen (diminutive of Heim = home) is the German term for house cricket. The house cricket is one of the animal appearances taken by dwarves, as is also attested by the dialectal names such as Herdschmiedl (hearth smith) and Heunemänken (Mänken = manikin).[1]
In North Palatinate and Western Palatinate, the house cricket, there known as Krikelmaus (Maus = mouse), is a nursery bogey used to scare children.[2]
In Pomerania, the Heimchen feed lost children with bread rolls and milk instead.[3]
In Silesia, the stridulating house cricket indicates the presence of a deceased soul.[2]
^Riegler: Grille. In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer: Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens: Band 3 Freen-Hexenschuss. Berlin/New York 2000, p. 1162.
^ ab Riegler: Grille. In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer: Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens: Band 3 Freen-Hexenschuss. Berlin/New York 2000, p. 1166.
^ Eckstein: Semmel. In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer: Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens: Band 7 Pflügen-Signatur. Berlin/New York 2000, p. 1638.
The Heimchen (sg., pl.) is a being from German folklore with several related meanings. In the first place, Heimchen (diminutive of Heim = home) is the...
an old man, Honest Eckart, who warns others of its approach) or of the Heimchen solitary wild huntsmen such as the ewiger Jäger or the Türst the Lorelei...
the most schön ("beautiful") Percht. Perchta is also the Queen of the Heimchen. According to Jacob Grimm (1882), Perchta was spoken of in Old High German...
whom local tales ascribe a following of children under the guise of the Heimchen who constitute her attendants in the area she frequents." (Translated from...
number.) Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) (1875) Merlin (1886) Das Heimchen am Herd (1896), adapted from Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth. Der Fremdling...
und Gretel (Humperdinck) Hannerl, Das Dreimäderlhaus (Heinrich Berté) Heimchen, The Cricket on the Hearth (Karl Goldmark) Ida, Die Fledermaus (Johann...
Heiling Marschner, Heinrich 13 Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck, Engelbert 57 Heimchen am Herd, Das Goldmark, Karl 20 Huguenots, Les Meyerbeer, Giacomo 41 New...
Felix Weingartner", Die Zeit, Band 6 (1896), p. 194. "Carl Goldmark, Das Heimchen am Herd -Erstaufführung in Wien", Die Zeit, Band 6 (1896), p. 207. "Siegfried...
Butterfly, Gennaro in Jewels of the Madonna, Edward Plummer in Goldmark's Das Heimchen am Herd (performed in English as The Cricket on the Hearth), Don José in...
1896, p. 98 Leben. Gedichte, 1882 Junges Leben. 2nd edition 1884 Was das Heimchen zirpt. 1884 Gedichte 1886 Märzveilchen, Gedicht, 1888 Michael Holzmann...
(Martha) Christoph Willibald Gluck Alceste (Alceste) Karl Goldmark Das Heimchen am Herd (Dot) Ruggiero Leoncavallo I Pagliacci (Nedda) Albert Lortzing...
German). She also sang Frau Dot in the world premiere of Goldmark's Das Heimchen am Herd (21 March 1896) and Tatjana in the first Viennese performance of...
Vorspielen Mutter erzählt Märchen Rosemarie tanzt Der Steinbaukasten Das Heimchen Die Trübselige Puppe Wiegenliedchen The Children That Listen, Sundry Pieces...
goldene Pierrot, Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin Karl Goldmark (1830–1915): Das Heimchen am Herd, Die Königin von Saba Osvaldo Golijov (1960– ): Ainadamar Antônio...
provide worker housing located near its factories. A similar settlement is Heimchen in Unterliederbach. The main street of the settlement was called Neu-Zeilsheim...
grillo del focolare which premiered in Genoa in 1873, Karl Goldmark's Das Heimchen am Herd (libretto by A. M. Willner) which premiered in Berlin (1896) and...
at Feuerhalle Simmering in Vienna, where also his ashes are buried. Das Heimchen am Herd (opera), music by Karl Goldmark, 1896 Die Schneeflocke (opera)...
States premieres of Jean Nouguès's Quo vadis (1911), Karl Goldmark's Das Heimchen am Herd (1912), and Alberto Franchetti's Cristoforo Colombo (1913). Notable...
Erzählungen (1892) Dornröschen und Schneewittchen (3. Auflage, 1893) Das Heimchen (1894) Das Kränzchen (7. Auflage, 1895) Das vierblättrige Kleeblatt (4...
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