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to animal form. He noticed that Bertha with a strange foot exists in many languages (Middle German "Berhte mit dem fuoze", French "Berthe au grand pied", Latin "Berhta cum magno pede", Italian " Berta dai gran piĂš", title of a medieval epic poem of
Italian area): "It is apparently a
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or wool during the year. She would also slit people's bellies open and stuff them with straw if they ate something on the night of her feast day, other than the traditional meal of fish and gruel.
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Mahan, William (2024). "Praising
Perchta as the Embodiment of Nature's Cycles: Worship and Demonization of Perchta and Holda in Medieval and Early Modern Culture". In Albrecht Classen (ed.).
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MĂŒller, Felix and Ulrich. 1999. "Percht und
Krampus, Kramperl und Schiach-Perchten." Wunderlich, Werner (Ed.): Mittelalter-Mythen 2. DĂ€monen-Monster-Fabelwesen. St. Gallen, S. 449â460. (
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In the Tyrol, she appears as a little old woman with a very wrinkled face, bright lively eyes, and a long hooked nose; her hair is dishevelled, her garments tattered and torn.
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In many old descriptions, Perchta had one large foot, sometimes called a goose foot or swan foot. Grimm thought the strange foot symbolized her being a higher being who could
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Smith, John B. (2004). "Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some
Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments".
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Smith, John B. (2004). "Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some
Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments".
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In contemporary culture, Perchta is portrayed as a "rewarder of the generous, and the punisher of the bad, particularly lying children".
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was said to be of long and wide feet, in effect taller than her husband called precisely, Pippin
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1411:"Perchta, Perechta, Peruchta, Parychta, Ć perechta."
185:and other female figures of Germanic folklore (see
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1164:The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
243:as the main names (in his heading), followed by
1394:, Praha, publisher FrantiĆĄek Ć imĂĄÄek, 1910. (
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36:to comply with Knowledge (XXG)'s
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1162:Frazer, Sir James George. 1920.
1093:International Gothic Association
440:on holidays. In the folklore of
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1045:. Vol. 17. Simon Bronner.
797:Pre-Christian Alpine traditions
668:Today in Austria, particularly
247:in Old High German, as well as
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862:Motz according to Hilton 1984.
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1047:Pennsylvania State University
283:. Elsewhere she was known as
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1039:"Folklore and the Historian"
522:is her equivalent while the
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1072:. Vol. 21 – via
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699:("beautiful Perchten") and
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2525:German legendary creatures
2419:VolksmÀrchen der Deutschen
2254:Peter Nikoll (Black Peter)
1333:10.1515/fabl.1976.17.1.215
1203:Wagner, Alexander. 2007.
734:("trunked Percht") in the
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108:), also commonly known as
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1133:Arizona State University
1064:Herbert, Vivian (1908).
886:Timm according to Natko.
841:Mogk according to Natko.
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199:Twelve Days of Christmas
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34:may need to be rewritten
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1070:The Wide World Magazine
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2065:Eppelein von Gailingen
1382:Accessed 30 Dec. 2022.
1313:Accessed 30 Dec. 2022.
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1432:at Wikimedia Commons
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2405:Grimms' Fairy Tales
2352:Walter of Aquitaine
2324:The Smith of Kochel
1197:Timm, Erika. 2003.
1119:Deutsche Mythologie
1022:Deutsches Sagenbuch
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473:De decem praeceptis
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