Puddle it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. When Walter Raleigh met Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is reputed to have thrown his coat over
Cloak of invisibility came to be regarded as a cap of invisibility. The "tarnkappe" (or "tarnkeppelin") is also owned by the dwarf king who is the title character in "Laurin". In different passages or variant manuscripts of these works, the "tarnkappe" is also referred to as the "tarnhût" (mod. Ger. "Haut" "skin") or "hehlkappe" (mod. Ger. "hehlen" "to hide"). In the original epic "Nibelungenlied," the hero's cloak not only grants him invisibility, but also increases his strength, to win over the Icelandic queen Brünhild. In Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen", the cloak becomes a magic helmet called the Tarnhelm, which