 In one Silesian folktale, he is called "Prince of the Gnomes" ("Fürst der Gnomen").The Polish name, "Liczyrzepa" is a direct translation of the German name, introduced by Stanisław Bełza in 1898.It only became widespread in Poland after 1945, when Józef Sykulski started to translate tales of Rübezahl from German into Polish.