Ecidemon

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The Ecidemon is a mythical beast in medieval Germany.

According to Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival , it is a small animal that kills all poisonous snakes .

According to Dietrich Huschenbett, a weasel-like crawling cat, the Ichneumon , could hide behind the Ecidemon .

literature

  • Johannes Siebert: Ecidemôn. In: Journal for German Philology. Volume 62, 1937, pp. 248-264.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Huschenbett: Hermann von Sachsenheim. Königshausen & Neumann, 2007, ISBN 9783826035654 , p. 84. Restricted preview in the Google book search