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- The character developed from an evil sorcerer into a folk hero and beneficial trickster in the course of the 19th century.
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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.
2 days ago · Krabat and the Sorcerer’s Mill by Otfried Preussler (trans. Anthea Bell) New York Review, 256 pp, $13.99. TWO TRADITIONS, THE CLASSICAL AND THE CHRISTIAN, combine to create Western culture. At the head of each stands a martyr. Socrates died for the sake of philosophy, Jesus for the redemption of humanity.
Nov 10, 1971 · Krabat, however, slowly realizes that milling is not the only thing that happens at the mill. The old miller is actually a sorcerer who formed a pact with the devil and must sacrifice one of the apprentices each year in order to stay in the devil's good graces and keep his enormous magical powers.
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Krabat, a beggar boy in early 18th century Lusatia, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. Together with a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill under slave-like conditions while learning black magic, such as guising himself as a raven and other animals.
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.
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Nov 1, 2014 · Otfried Preussler’s “Krabat and the Sorcerer’s Mill” By Emma Garman. Preussler’s storytelling mastery and gift for atmosphere render this Bildungsroman-meets-Gothic horror both timeless and splendidly, creepily original. November 1, 2014.
Krabat (German: [ˈkʁaːbat] ⓘ) is a character in Sorbian folklore, also dubbed the "Wendish Faust". First records of him were mentioned in 1839 minutes of the Akademischen Vereins für lausitzische Geschichte und Sprache , but all writings of the association were lost.
