Hinzelmann

The legend was recorded in Pfarrer (pastor) Marquart Feldmann's diary for the years 1584–1589, and published by an anonymous author as Der vielförmige Hintzelmann in three duodecimo editions, 1701. sine loco; 1704, Leipzig; and 1718.

[3] The castle where the haunting took place was used as shelter during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) but thereafter abandoned by the Lords of Hudemühlen, and was so derelict by 1704 [1701] that the chamber where the Hintzelmann did his meddling could hardly be discovered.

[6] He argues that the similar sprite-names heinzelman, hinzelman, hinzemännchen relate to the cat, and in particular is comparable to the form katerman (variant reading of taterman, in the poem Der Renner).

[12][b] Hinzelmann and Katzenveit[c][d] are listed together under the category of kobold alluding to cat-shape (not "hypocorism" type names like "Hank" or "Jimmy") in the Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens [de] (HdA).

[20] While Grimm tended to lump Hinzelmann and Heinzelman together, it has been clarified that the Heinzelmännchen attached to the city of Cologne is to be distinguished from it both in terms of character and appearance.

75 "Hinzelmann" in their Deutsche sagen anthology,[24] sourced solely from the book properly titled Der vielförmige Hintzelmann (1704), ascribed to Pastor Marquart (Marcqvart) Feldmann at Eickeloh who kept his day-book in the years 1584–1589.

[25][26] According to this legend, the Hinzelmann ("Hintzelmann" in the original source) began haunting the castle Hudemühlen in Lower Saxony beginning in the year 1584.

[32] Hinzelmann would usefully and dedicatedly perform kitchen chores such as tableware and dish-washing, recover lost items, and groom horses.

[35][38] The cook or the servants were obliged to put out a bowl of sweet milk with crumbled white bread in it, left sitting on the table meant for its use.

[43] Also after Hinzelmann thrashed [m] the haughty secretary named Henning Steinhoff[44] working at the castle, catching him during a tryst with the chambermaid, (cf.

[60] When a nobleman protested that a seat at the dinner table was set for the spirit, and refused to drink to the kobold's honour, it prompted Hinzelmann to grab the man under his chin by the buckled strap (Schnallriemen) of his cloak, drag him the ground, and choke him near to death.

[64] In one anecdote, he showed his true form to a maid, who fainted; it was a corpse of a child around three years of age,[q] stabbed in the chest by two knives (cf.

[66] Pastor Feldmann himself, at the age of 14 or 15, claimed to have borne witness to the Hinzelmann hurriedly running up the steps, and while the figure and its clothing and coloration could be discerned, it seemed more a "transparent shadow (durchsichtigen Schatten) than a right veritable body".

For the third season of the American Gods television series, the deity was adapted as Ann-Marie Hinzelmann, the local busybody and shop owner portrayed by Julia Sweeney.

Hinzelmann is the primary antagonist of the short piece "A Late Symmer Night's Battle" by Laura Frankos, printed in Turn the Other Chick (ed.

He leads an army of kobolds to invade the English fairy kingdom of Oberon and Titania, sometime after the events of A Midsummer Night's Dream.