Schrat

"Skrat" redirects here. For other uses, see Skrat (disambiguation).

Schrat as Carnival costume.

The Schrat (German: [ʃʁaːt]) or Schratt, also Schraz[1] or Waldschrat (forest Schrat),[2] is a rather diverse German and Slavic legendary creature with aspects of either a wood sprite, domestic sprite and a nightmare demon.[1][3] In other languages it is further known as Skrat.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference HdA-Ranke-schrat was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference HdA-Pehl-waldgeister was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Grimms-DW-schrat was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Hastings, James; Selbie, James A., edd. Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Part 8, p. 628, Kessinger Publishing, 2003 ISBN 0-7661-3678-7.