Schrat
Sign in to savethumb|Schrat as Carnival costume. 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 sprite, domestic sprite and/or a nightmare demon. In other languages it is further known as Skrat.
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- Etymology
- Medieval attestations
- Diminutive forms
- Wood sprite
- Mining demon
- Nightmare demon
- Forms
- Livestock dream spirits
- Witches, possessions, ghosts
- Protective amulets
- Domestic sprite
- Middle High German literature
- Local lore
- Animal forms
- Egg-hatched, chicken-shaped
- Dwarf
- Connections with the devil, witches, and deceased souls
- Yiddish folklore
- ''Shretele''
- ''Kapelyushnikl''
- Scandinavian and Baltic folklore
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
thumb|Schrat as Carnival costume. 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 sprite, domestic sprite and/or a nightmare demon. In other languages it is further known as Skrat.
== Etymology == The word Schrat originates in the same word root as Old Norse skrati, skratti (sorcerer, giant), Icelandic '' (devil) and vatnskratti'' (water sprite), Swedish ' (fool, sorcerer, devil), and English ' (devil).