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   Krabat (German: [ˈkʁaːbat] ⓘ) is a 1971 fantasy novel about the eponymous Sorbian folk hero, written by Otfried Preußler. The book deals primarily with black magic and the lure of evil. Other themes include friendship, love, and death.

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   Nov 10, 1971 · The simple and powerful story is divided into three books, one for each year of the action. The first book starts in midwinter. Krabat, a fourteen year old boy at the time of the Swedish war, is making a precarious living as a beggar when he has a series of strange dreams.

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   • Author: Otfried Preußler

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   Nov 1, 2014 · Krabat, a fourteen-year-old beggar living in early 1700s Saxony, has a series of dreams in which a disembodied voice summons him to an unfamiliar mill in a nearby village.

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   1 day ago · Krabat, a children’s book of unusual seriousness, is sometimes described as Preussler’s attempt to describe, in story form, the immense effort it took for Germans finally to break free of Hitler’s spell. The attractions of power are all too obvious. The moral ideal of its renunciation, therefore, needs perennial reinforcement.

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   Krabat & the Sorcerer’s Mill was one of Cornelia Funke’s most beloved books as a child, and it is easy to see why. It is a wondrous story of magic, black and white; of courage and cunning; and of high adventure.

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6. cannonballread.com › 2021 › 12Krabat by Otfried Preußler – Singsonggirl Book Review ...

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   Dec 9, 2021 · The East German Harry Potter for goth kids. Krabat by Otfried Preußler. December 9, 2021 by Singsonggirl 3 Comments. One of my favourite books in middle school, reread it here in my exile at my mum’s place and while it clearly is for children (well..), it’s as deliciously dark as I remember.

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   What makes Krabat a great horror story?

   • But it is Preussler’s own storytelling mastery and gift for atmosphere that render this Bildungsroman-meets-Gothic horror both timeless and splendidly, creepily original. Krabat, a fourteen-year-old beggar living in early 1700s Saxony, has a series of dreams in which a disembodied voice summons him to an unfamiliar mill in a nearby village.

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   When was Krabat first published?

   • The book was first published in 1971 and in an English translation first as The Satanic Mill from 1972 to 1991, then republished in 2000 as The Curse of the Darkling Mill, in 2011 as Krabat and in 2014 as Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill.

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   Is Krabat based on a true story?

   • For Krabat, he drew on the folk tales he loved as a child, basing the book on a Wendish legend. But it is Preussler’s own storytelling mastery and gift for atmosphere that render this Bildungsroman-meets-Gothic horror both timeless and splendidly, creepily original.

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   Does Krabat have a pact with the Goodman?

   • Krabat's suspicions of foul play are further reinforced when another journeyman and friend, Michal, dies the following New Year's Eve. He soon realizes that the master is bound in a pact to the Goodman: the master must sacrifice one journeyman every year on New Year's Eve, or perish himself.

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   How does Krabat end a spell?

   • A girl from the nearby village, a church singer, “Kantorka”, whose name is never mentioned (“Kantorka” meaning just ‘girl chorister’). 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.

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   Why did Krabat leave his friends?

   • Unable to ignore the command and the accompanying chorus of talking ravens, who insist that he must obey, Krabat leaves his friends and eventually finds the mill, “a hunched shape in the snow, dark and menacing, like some vicious, powerful animal lying in wait for its prey.”

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   Krabat, a fourteen-year-old beggar boy dressed up as one of the Three Kings, is traveling from village to village singing carols. One night he has a strange dream in which he is summoned by a faraway voice to go to a mysterious mill—and when he wakes he is irresistibly drawn there.