Capon stone
Allectorius - Capon Stone. Illustration from the Hortus sanitatis Mainz 1491
Kapaunenstein ( allectorius = attracting) was the name given to a concrement that was supposed to grow in the liver of a rooster ( capon ) castrated at the age of three . This stone has been attributed to make women desirable and to take away men’s thirst and incite them to fight.
literature
Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer . Capon . In: Concise dictionary of German superstition . De Gruyter, Berlin 1932, Volume IV, Col. 968-969
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konrad von Megenberg . Book of nature . Edition Pfeiffer 1861, III B 17: Cappan (digitized version )
- ^ Hortus sanitatis . Mainz 1491, De lapidibus, Chapter 6: Allectorius (digitized version )
- ^ Hortus sanitatis , Strasbourg 1529, From the stones, chapter 6: Allectorius a kappenstein vß eim kapon. (Digitized version)
- ^ Conrad Gessner : Bird book. (1st edition 1555) Frankfurt am Mayn 1600, sheet p. 163 Alectoria (digitized version )