Schrat
The Schrat, also known as Schratt, Schraz or Waldschrat (forest Schrat), is a diverse German and Slavic legendary creature. It has aspects of a wood sprite, domestic sprite, and/or a nightmare demon.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Schrätel, Trud, Schrättlein, Schrättling, Schrötele, Schröttele, Schröttlich, Schreitel, Schrätzlein, Schlaarzla, Schrähelein, Alp, Kobold, nisses, hütchen, drak, Nis Puk, Hinzelmann, Klabautermann, lemmüz, Kratti, Schrätlein, Puk, kobel
- syncretized with
- kratt, Puck, Nordic gnomes, Nordic wights
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“This tends to be known by the name Schrat or its variants in Southern Germany and Switzerland, especially in regions with Alemannic dialect. Such a demon is also considered a sickness demon, as explained above.”
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“The Schrat is cross-categorized as a wood sprite and a house sprite, and some regional examples correspond to kobold, e.g., Upper Franconia in northern Bavaria.”
#23554 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Kratt is related to the Germanic and Slavic Schrat (cf. Estonian Swedish skrat, Polish: skrzat), also known as Puck (cf. Estonian: puuk, Swedish: puke, Low German: Puk), but also Nordic gnomes and wights, and they likewise sometimes transform into firedrakes”
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