Lutk

Sculpture by Lutken in Burg (Spreewald)

Lutken or Ludken (from Sorbian for "Leutchen") are mostly dwarfs from the Lusatian world of legends living in the ground . In Sorbian they are called Lutki and in the Mark Brandenburg they are called Lutchen . The singular Lutk is usually only used in the saga when an individual comes into contact with a person, mostly from the peasantry.

The Lutken are said to have been friendly towards the people and frequented their homes. They are little people who once lived on earth and, with the penetration of Christianity , frightened by the sound of church bells, fled into the interior of the earth. In the north of Lusatia, the urns and clay jugs that were found were associated with them, which were believed to be the household goods of the Lutken. Their residential mounds were called Ludkowa gora (Ludkenberg) or Ludkowa gorka (Ludkenhügel).

In the Upper Lusatia one also knows dwarf sagas that tell of Querxen and Veensmännlein , especially in the southern Upper Lusatia .

• See also : Die Lüttchen vom Räuberberg .

Literature and references

literature

• Ludki. In: Lausizische monthly . 12th issue. 1797. pp. 753–754 ( p. 753 in the Google book search)
• Sage in the Oberlaus.-wend. Areas of the Ludki, the little meerkats In: Karl Benjamin Preusker : Views into the patriotic prehistory. Second volume, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1843, pp. 59–60 (dialect, digitized in the Google book search)
• Note V In: Karl Benjamin Preusker : Views into the patriotic prehistory. Third volume, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1843, pp. 176–177 ( digitized in the Google book search)
• The Ludki . In: Karl Haupt : Journal for German Mythology and Sittenkunde , Volume 4, 1859, pp. 211–224.
• The Ludki . In: Karl Haupt : Sagenbuch der Lausitz. 2. Vol. Leipzig, Engelmann 1862/63, pp. 45–46 ( digitized in the Google book search)
• Dwarf sagas in the area around Zittau . In: Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : The treasure trove of legends of the Kingdom of Saxony . Second improved and increased edition, Volume 2. Schönfeld: Dresden 1874. pp. 258–265
• The Ludki . In: Edmund Veckenstedt : Wendish legends, fairy tales and superstitious customs. Leuschner & Lubensky: Graz 1880. pp. 157-182
• From Lutken and dwarfs. In: Erich Schneider (editor), Martin Nowak-Neumann (illustrator): Sagen der Lausitz Domowina-Verlag: Bautzen 1963 [14. Edition, March 2006, ISBN 978-3-7420-0702-5 ]

References

1. ↑

   “ Lutchen ( Lutki ), Leutchen, a popular name used especially in the Margraviate of Brandenburg for the" little people "or dwarfs usually thought to live in the ground; hence Lutchenberge (prehistoric graves), Lutchentopf (burial urns ) etc. "

   - Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 869. Online: zeno.org
2. ↑ Lutchen , in: Meyers encyclopedia . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892, p. 1021. Online: retro | bib
3. ↑ From Lutken and Dwarfs. In: Erich Schneider (edit.): Sagen der Lausitz. A selection. 4th revised and expanded edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1965, p. 36
4. ↑ The Ludki . In: Karl Haupt : Sagenbuch der Lausitz. Engelmann: Leipzig 1862/63, p. 45 ( p. 45 in the Google book search)