Georg Wilhelm Wegner’s Parson of Germendorf and Nassenheidel Philosophical Tractl on spiritsl in which a short account is given of the goblin of Wustermarck.l Horatius:1 Nos majus veriti, postquam nihil esse pericli /l Sensimus, erigimur.” (“We who have feared for worse gain courage in having noticed that there is no danger.”). Berlin, published by Haude and C. Spener, 1747. (80 pages, archived in Wolfenbüttel)

(Georg Wilhelm Wegnersl Predigers zu Germendorfl und Nassenheidel Philosophische Abhandlungl vonl Gespensterni Worinn zugleichl eine kurtze Nachrichtl von dem Wustermarckischen Koboldl gegeben wird.l Horatius.l Nos majus veriti, postquam nihil esse periclil Sensimus, erigimur. (Wir, die wir Schlimmeres befürchtet haben, fassen Mut, nachdem wir gemerkt haben, dass keine Gefahr besteht. Horaz, Satiren, 2. Buch, 8. Gedicht, Vers 57, 58) Berlin, Zu haben bey Haude und C. Spener, 1747.)

In the year 1747 the parson of Germendorf and Nassenheide, Georg Wilhelm Wegner, together with his son and a friend, visited the parsonage of Wustermarck where a goblin was said to be acting up. The parson at Wustermarck had reported hearing various noises in his living room. Once it seemed as if someone pushed a big box along the floor (Wegner 1747, p.72), and sometimes he heard “a sound like from a heavy blow or a shove from which the house shook”. Another time “something passed him which he could hear well but could see nothing” (Wegner 1747, p. 73).