Greiss

This article deals with the demon Greiss.

• For the ice hockey player of the same surname, see Thomas Greiss .
• For the noble and Lower Austrian sub-marshal Christoph Greiss zu Wald (1563-1617) see Christoph Greiss zu Wald .

Greiss is a cattle-killing demon from the legends of the Alpine region . He is a personification of the bogus disease .

According to tradition, greiss can appear in the form of a black cat, a squirrel or a stranger or it can be caused by the baptism of a lamb and destroy livestock in entire Alps. For prevention, sacrifices could be made, to fight a silvery-white bull had to be led up to the alp by a virgin, which would then defeat the Greiss.

literature

• Norbert Borrmann: Lexicon of monsters, ghosts and demons. The creatures of the night from myth, legend, literature and film. The (slightly) different who is who . Parkland Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-88059-998-X . Page 143