However, Demetrius' son, Paphnutius, at the urging of his First Minister, had, in the name of Enlightenment, banished most of the fairies and confiscated their property.

Thanks to the gift of the good fairy, the dwarf enchants Professor Mosh Terpin (possessed by a peculiar vision of the "German Spirit") and his daughter Candida.

Zaches-Zinnober does not waste time, and, taking advantage of other people's successes, quickly makes a career at the court of Barsanuph and prepares to marry Candida.

Rosabelvelde arrives at his house, where they have a brief duel before the mage manages to destroy the comb with which she periodically reinforced the magic, contained in three fiery hairs upon the dwarf's head.

With the illusion gone, now mistaken for a mandrake by some and a monkey by others, Zinnober flees into his house where he ends drowning in a chamber pot with sewage.

Due to Alpanus' magic, people still perceive the dead Zaches as smart and handsome, allowing him to be buried with honor.

According to the questionable information from Hoffmann's friend Julius Hitzig, the author of Little Zaches was stimulated by fever visions that plagued him during a severe liver and nerve ailment in the spring of 1819.

On January 24, 1819, he sent Prince Pückler-Muskau an author's copy corrected by himself; the story, “the birth of a somewhat exuberant ironic fantasy”, has just left the printing press.

The Berlin band Coppelius composed the world's first steampunk opera based on the novel, which premiered on November 14, 2015, at the Gelsenkirchen Music Theater.