I'm a simple emigrant and I lost the knives

Recently I bought two packs of knives: one for me and one for my sister. They were different colors, and I wanted us to open them together and swap one. My little sister arrived, I handed her one pack, explained the plan, and went to grab the second. And it wasn't there. I turned the whole house upside down, went to the cellar, then searched more and more. After the hundredth attempt to find the second box I realized that it had obviously been stolen by the domovoi Kuzya. But how could he steal it? You still have to get to Germany, and now you can get a visa only if your brother lives in Germany, preferably a twin, a Siamese twin. To be sure. I went to see if there is a worldwide network of house spirits and a German branch. And it turned out — there really is. They work almost like the mafia! The closest brother Kobold (kobold) — by old beliefs, he lives in the house, helps the owners, but he doesn’t forget to cause trouble. He loves to make noise, knock, rearrange, and hide things so that later you have to search high and low. There is also Heinzelmännchen — small fairy-tale men from Cologne legends. They secretly perform household work at night, and basically don’t harm. We definitely don’t have these fellows at home: how many mugs I left on the table in the evening is how many stand in the morning. The red rascal among the Germans also exists, called Pumuckl. True, this is already a character from a book, not a mythical hero. He lives in the carpenter’s workshop and sometimes helps the master solve various problems. But first he creates them himself. Thanks to him, of course, otherwise what would the master cope with and the book would be boring: once there was a carpenter, he made furniture and sold it, then died. Now I am completely convinced that my knives were stolen by Kobold! Probably he thought that two whole boxes would be too much for me and put his house in order. But now we can always explain to the Germans where the sock from the washing machine disappeared to, the second key to the bicycle lock, and all those seven thousand letters that arrived before noon on Tuesday! And have you had Kobold steal something yet? #curiosities #holidays