witam po przerwie! dzięki za informacje o wężach. i o książce, w wolnej chwili jej poszukam i może update'uje mape. chwilowo uznaję ją za skończoną.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2hh2dys.jpg-- 28 Mar 2015, 18:45 --
no więc mam książkę. niestety, poza faktem, że tatzelwurm występuje na śląsku nie ma ani opisu kto go tam widzial, ani kiedy, ani gdzie dokladnie. śląsk jest spory a ja nie posiadam niestety zdolności językowych (ani chyba zapału) żeby szukać w źródłach.
Tatzelwurm
Mystery LIZARD of Central Europe.
Etymology: German, “clawed worm.”
Scientific name: Heloderma europaeum, given
by Jakob Nicolussi in 1933.
Variant names: Arassas (in French Alps),
Bergstutz (“mountain stump”), CAT-HEADED
SNAKE, Daazelwurm, DARD, Höckwurm,
Kuschka (from the Slovenian kuscar, “lizard”),
Lindwurm (in Innsbruck, Austria), Praatzelwurm,
Springwurm (in Tirol, Austria, “jumping
worm”), Stollenwurm, Stollwurm (in the
Bernese Alps of Switzerland, “hole worm”),
Tazzelwurm.
Physical description: Lizardlike body, 3 inches
thick. Length, 1–4 feet. Skin reported as either
smooth or scaly. Whitish or light brown on the
back, lighter underneath. Blunt head, sometimes
described as catlike. Large eyes with a
piercing glance. Wide mouth with sharp teeth.
Forked tongue. Indistinct neck. Most reports
give it two short, stubby front feet with three
toes that point outward; others mention four
legs or none at all. Short, thick tail.
Behavior: Active in stormy weather. Can
jump several feet. Hisses, whistles, or snorts. Hibernates
in the winter. Sometimes sleeps in hay
in farm buildings. Basks in the sun. Allegedly
venomous. Said to attack cattle. Aggressive.
May attack if disturbed.
Habitat: Mountains and rocky areas at altitudes
from 1,600 to 7,200 feet.
Distribution: The Swiss, Bavarian, French,
Italian, and Austrian Alps, with some reports
from Silesia in Poland.
538 TATZELWURM
Significant sightings: Hans Fuchs suffered a
heart attack and died when he ran across two
Tatzelwurms in 1779 near Unken, Salzburg,
Austria.
Kaspar Arnold saw a Tatzelwurm on the
Spielberg, near Hochfilzen, Tirol, Austria, in
July 1883 or 1884. He watched it from a mountain
restaurant for twenty minutes and was certain
it only had two legs.
A two-legged Tatzelwurm leaped 9 feet in the
air toward two witnesses near Rauris, Salzburg,
Austria, in the summer of 1921. It was gray,
about 2–3 feet long, and had a head like a cat.
In 1934, a Swiss photographer named Balkin
claimed to have photographed a Tatzelwurm
near Meiringen, Switzerland, but his photo was
probably a faked image of a ceramic fish.
In the summer of 1969, a local man reported
a 30-inch-long animal with two hind legs near
Lengstein, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. It seemed
to be inflating its neck.
In 1990, two naturalists found the skeleton of
a lizardlike animal in the Alps near Domodossola,
Italy. Giuseppe Costale saw a gray, crested
reptile moving in a zigzag fashion on Pizzo Cronia
in the same area on two occasions, in October
1991 and September 1992.
Present status: Early knowledge of the Tatzelwurm
may have contributed to European
DRAGON lore. There have been few reports since
the 1960s.
Possible explanations:
(1) Snakes, especially in those few reports in
which no front feet are reported.
(2) Reports of Tatzelwurms with four legs
might be misidentifications of Pearl lizards
(Lucertola ocellata), Alpine salamanders
(Salamandra atra), Otters (Lutra lutra), Pine
martens (Martes martes), or Badgers (Meles
meles).
(3) An unknown species of Anguid lizard
(Family Anguidae) related to the limbless
Blindworm (Anguis fragilis) and the
European glass lizard (Ophisaurus apodus),
suggested by Robert Kirch.
(4) An unknown European species of
amphisbaenid lizard related to the twolegged
Mole worms (Family Bipedidae) of
Mexico and Baja California.
(5) An unknown European species of
Venomous lizard (Family Helodermatidae),
proposed by Jakob Nicolussi, although
members of this North American family
have two pairs of legs and are by definition
poisonous. There are no known instances of
Tatzelwurm poisoning.
(6) An unknown species of skink related to
the Three-toed skink (Chalcides chalcides) of
Spain and the French Alps.
(7) An unknown European species of
salamander related to the Chinese giant
salamander (Andrias davidianus), which can
grow to more than 6 feet in length,
suggested by Ulrich Magin.
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