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DescriptionHoughton Swi 607.23 - Ouresiphoítes helveticus, fig X.jpg	English: Illustration (fig. X) depicting a mythical "Alpine dragon" from Ouresiphoítes helveticus, sive Itinera per Helvetiæ alpinas regiones facta..., 1723, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733), illustration to p. 385. It was a four-footed dragon with a catlike face and a crest (German: Haarbusch) on top, and a tail 3 ells long. Encountered by Andreas Roduner ca. 1660 on Wangserberger mountain.[1][2][3][4] It is only one of many unspecified dragons (draco) of the Swiss Alps treated in the original sources (J. J. Wagner and Scheuchzer), but Meurger & Gagnon 1988, p. 266 counts it as an example of Stollenwurm/Tatzelwurm.[5]
Date	1723
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Author	Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (author)
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1. ↑ Swi 607.23, Houghton Library, Harvard University
2. ↑ Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1723) Ouresiphoitēs Helveticus, sive Itinera per helvetiae, 2, Petri vander Aa, pp. 395f ; Biodiversity Heritage Library copy;German translation
3. ↑ Grand-Carteret, John (1903) La montagne à travers les âges: rôle joué par elle, Librairie dauphinoise, pp. 151
4. ↑ Meurger, Michel (1988) Lake monster traditions: a cross-cultural analysis, Fortean Tomes, p. 266
5. ↑ Meurger & Gagnon 1988, p. 266:" Andreas Roduner, secretary and colour- bearer of the village of Altsax..[which] had four feet, ears, a ridge, a very long tail, and the face of a cat" that "This "lizard-with- a-cat's-head" haunts the accounts of mountaineers. lt is the Stollenwurm of the countryside around Berne, the Tatzelwurm of Austria."