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Krabat learns that to end the spell, his lover must challenge the master for him; then whoever loses the challenge, the master or the two lovers, will die. The master offers Krabat another solution: He will retire and let Krabat inherit the mill, along with the pact to the Goodman; but Krabat refuses to perpetuate the evil pact.
The Master of the Black Mill has a pact with the “man with the cockerel feather”, also called “Goodman” (“Gevatter” in German, which is close in meaning to Godfather), who visits the mill with his heavy black cart at every new moon.
Nov 1, 2014 · The denouement of Preussler’s genuinely suspenseful plot pits Krabat and his love against the Master in a contest of the latter’s devising and with the highest possible stakes: beating the Master means escape, plus the rest of the brotherhood’s liberation from their helpless pact with darkness.
- Emma Garman
Oct 9, 2024 · Krabat learns that to end the spell, his lover must challenge the master for him; then whoever loses the challenge, the master or the two lovers, will die. The master offers Krabat another solution: He will retire and let Krabat inherit the mill, along with the pact to the Goodman; but Krabat refuses to perpetuate the evil pact.
In this way, Krabat learns one of the mill’s grimmest secrets: that by agreement with the Goodman, every year one man must be sacrificed. Once the fatal moment passes, morale revives.
Nov 27, 2015 · Krabat is an urchin plucked out of a miserable life to become a miller’s apprentice. At first he’s delighted with his new home — he has to work hard but gets plenty to eat, and finds new friends among the journeymen — but soon he begins to learn disquieting things about his master and the mill.
In the late seventeenth century, after the end of the world, a fourteen-year-old orphan boy named Krabat walks from town to town begging with a troupe of friends. Krabat isn't bitter about his lot.
