In the Sudeten mountains lives in peaceful unit the destinated mountain spirit, just called "carrot number", who made the giant mountains famous. This prince of gnomes possesses on the surface of the erath only a small area, only a few miles to the extend with a chain by mountains closed. But under the earth his own autocracy raises to eight hundret sixty miles into depth, up to the center of the earth. Sometimes he gives time off all underground government concerns, rises for recovery on the border, celebrates his play and mockery with the mankind like a glad wild clown, who, in order to laugh once, his neighbour tickle to death.

Friend "carrot number" is like a body builder, moodely, impetuously, strangly, roughly, rascalful, immodestly, proudly, vainly, today the warmest friend, tomorrow strangely and coldly, from time to time good-naturedly, nobly and sensitiv, funny and conventionally, intractably Freund Rübezahl ist geartet wie ein Kraftgenie, launisch, ungestüm, sonderbar; bengelhaft, roh, unbescheiden; stolz, eitel, wankelmütig, heute der wärmste Freund, morgen fremd und kalt; zuzeiten gutmütig, edel und empfindsam; aber mit sich selbst in stetem Widerspruch, ridiculous and point, waggish and conventionally, intractable and bendingly.

From Olims times ago "carrot number" toste in the wild mountains, rushed bears and buffalos that they fight together, or hunted with horror din the shy wild before himself and fell it from the steep rock cliffs down. When he was tired by hunting, he went the road to the rgions of underworld and stayed here for centuries, until he became desire to lay down under the sun and relaxe. One time, when he came back from the snowed summits, he wondered because the country had changed. The dark forests were cleared and changed into fruitful fields, where rich harvests matured. Between the plantings of flowering fruit trees villages roofs...

Johann Karl August Musäus

(1735 - 1787)