-
German sources give the
forms schrat, schrate, waltschrate, waltschrat,
schretel, schretelîn, schretlin, schretlein, schraz, schrawaz, schreczl, schreczlein...
- the gift of a
polar bear and
lodges at a peasant's
house infested by a "
schretel". But it is
driven away by the
ferocious bear,
which the
spirit thinks...