The haunted cellar
The cursed cellar is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 12, which they translated from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker in 1825 .
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Justin Mac Carthy from Ballinacarthy is a good gentleman and generous with his excellent wine cellar, but no cupbearer can stand it for long. The stable helper offers himself. He fits into his new position. But when he is supposed to fetch wine for the hunting party around midnight, he hears a roar behind the cellar door that robs him of his senses. The gentleman has to go himself and sees a small, strangely dressed guy on a bottle. The Cluricaun calls himself Naggenin, he announces that he will go with a move, which is why the Lord drops this plan. In future he will have to fetch the wine himself. But the cellar is no longer filled and falls into disrepair after his death.
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According to Grimm: In another story from Cork, a cluricaun serves the Quaker Harris, for example by stopping the beer tap if someone forgets to turn it off. When the cook only has some herring and a cold potato left for him, he pulls her out of bed and down the cellar stairs at night:
- “Herringbones and potato peels!
- the stones should smash your head! "
The Lord is moving across a river so that the Cluricaun cannot follow. Then he jumps on the wagon and shouts "Master, now we are going, all together!" .
Similar in Danish in Thiele I., p. 136; Grimms Deutsche Sagen No. 93. Naggruin is the smallest drinking measure (from naggin , jug, with in as a diminutive).
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 168-175, 260-261. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)