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Sprite from German and Ashkenazi Jewish folklore
Schrat as Carnival costume.
The Schrat or Schratt, also Schraz[1] or Waldschrat (forest Schrat),[2] is a rather diverse German and Slavic legendary creature with aspects of either a wood sprite, domestic sprite and a nightmare demon.[1]
^ abRanke: Schrat, Schrättel (Schraz, Schrätzel). In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer: Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens: Band 7 Pflügen-Signatur. Berlin/New York 2000, p. 1285.
^Pehl: Waldgeister. In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer: Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens: Band 9 Waage-Zypresse, Nachträge. Berlin/New York 2000, p. 60.
The Schrat or Schratt, also Schraz or Waldschrat (forest Schrat), is a rather diverse German and Slavic legendary creature with aspects of either a wood...
Gütel, Heinzelmännchen, Jack o' the bowl, and Niß Puk), Klabautermann, Schrat, Wild man, Drak, Aufhocker, Ork, poltergeist, bogeyman, Will-o'-the-wisp...
having an intimate connection to trees and the forest. In German, the words Schrat and Waldschrat are also used for a moss person. (Compare Old Norse skratti...
and Dutch wees which both mean "orphan". Old High German had the terms schrat, scrato or scrazo, which appear in glosses of Latin works as translations...
include Laura Pawela, Marek Chołoniewski, Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, Henrik Schrat, Mark Peter Wright and Mathew Parkin. In January 2011 IMT became IMT Gallery...
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