Hinzelmann

Hinzelmann (also Lüring ) is the name for a goblin as a legendary figure. He is said to have done good, as the completion of homework. But he could be angry if you appealed to him. This Hinzelmann occurred without form and had the voice of a child. Ludwig Bechstein also called appearances in the form of a dead child. Its home to have lain in the Bohemian mountains. He received mainly through his activity in Hudemühlen Castle in Hodenhagen 1584-1588 in the legends. 1588 he has voluntarily gone by Hudemühlen and was then in Eystrup down. According to legend, Hinzelmann will come back at the same time fulfilling three conditions: When the cook a broken water bucket with a broken trowel populated if the dachshund poses under a willow tree boy and when a child is born with only one eye to the world.

The Brothers Grimm have written the saga of Hinzelmann. They made use of this book published in 1704:

• The multiform Hintzelmann or umbständliche and strange Erzehlung by a spirit, then on the home Hudemühlen and afterwards to Eystrup in the country Lüneburg under a variety of shapes and surprising change - be proud. 379 S. 12 of the pastor Feldmann to Eickelohe first drawn.