Rübezahl
Also known as: Liczyrzepa, Duch Gór, Krakonoš
Basic account
Mountain spirit of the Riesengebirge: trickster, giant, weather-lord.
Account
Rübezahl is the weather-spirit of the Krkonoše mountains on the Czech-Polish border. He rewards the honest, punishes the arrogant, and takes violent offence at his own name.
Motifs
- The wild one of the uplands
- The giant as guardian
- Defeated by cunning
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What is disputed
The origin of the name is not settled.
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Sources
- Martin Helwig, map of Silesia (1561): early depiction
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Chain of custody
Rübezahl is an ancient Germanic mountain god, a pre-Christian deity of the Giant Mountains who survived Christianisation as a folk spirit.
The documents on this ladder run back to the sixteenth century, where Rübezahl appears as a named mountain demon rather than as a god, and in the places where an ancient-deity reading is stated it is stated as conjecture.
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