Hubertus key
The Hubertus key is a religious-therapeutic instrument in the form of a key or nail that was consecrated in the St. Hubert monastery in the Belgian Ardennes to protect dogs, but also other domestic animals, from rabies to Saint Hubert , the patron saint of hunting . To do this, the key was made to glow in a charcoal pan and the forehead was burned with it ( cauterization ). It was also used in people bitten by rabid animals by burning out the bite wound with the glowing Hubertus key. For example , those healed by " Hundswuth " made a pilgrimage to Nonnweiler . (Whereby it must be assumed that these “victims” were not really infected with rabies, since symptomatic rabies is practically always fatal.) It was not until 1828 that the use of the Hubertus key was forbidden by the church.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Parish community Nonnweiler (Ed.): Chronicle of the parish "St. Hubertus “Nonnweiler . Nonnweiler.