 The Rübezahl story was first collected and written down by Johannes Praetorius in the "Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii" (1662).The character later appeared Johann Karl August Musäus's "Legenden vom Rübezahl" and Carl Hauptmann's "Rübezahl-Buch" as well as Otfried Preußler's "Mein Rübezahl-Buch".Finally, there is Ferdinand Freiligrath's "Aus dem schlesischen Gebirge" from "Ein Glaubensbekenntnis", 1844 and Robert Reinick's "Rübezahls Mittagstisch".