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But Tatzelwurm has later came into currency in Austria. [ 7 ] Bergstutz , Birgstutz or Birgstuz'n ("mountain-stump" [ citation needed ] ) was the local name used in places in Austria such as the state of Styria , parts of the Tyrol , [ a ] Salzburg and the Salzkammergut region, and some parts of Bavaria (specifically Berchtesgaden ), according ...
The knucker or the Tatzelwurm is a wingless biped, and often identified as a lindworm. In legends, lindworms are often very large and eat cattle and human corpses, sometimes invading churchyards and eating the dead from cemeteries. [19] The maiden amidst the Lindorm's shed skins.
The Nyami Nyami, otherwise known as the Zambezi River God or Zambezi Snake Spirit, is one of the most important gods of the people living along the Zambezi River. The Nyami Nyami is believed to protect the people and give them sustenance in difficult times.
The Tatzelwurm is a legendary creature of the Alps, described as a lizard with only four or two short legs and a stubby tail. [87] The Lonza a creature described in Dante's Inferno. [88] It represents the vice of lust or envy. [89] It is described in the Tuscan Bestiary as a hybrid between a Lion and a Lynx or Leopard. [90]
Eric R. Kandel,The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Random House Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-4000-6871-5, 2012. Michael Yonan, Messerschmidt's Character Heads: Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History, Routledge, ISBN 9781138213432, 2018
Cevdet Mehmet Kösemen [1] [2] (born 18 May 1984), also known by his former pen name Nemo Ramjet, is a Turkish researcher, artist, and author.Kosemen is known for his artwork, depicting living and extinct animals as well as surrealist scenes, and his writings on paleoart, speculative evolution, and history and culture in Turkey.
Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg, in a lithograph by Eugène Delacroix. Mephistopheles [a] (/ ˌ m ɛ f ɪ ˈ s t ɒ f ɪ ˌ l iː z /, German pronunciation: [mefɪˈstoːfɛlɛs]), also known as Mephisto, [1] is a demon featured in German folklore.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore.He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by ...