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Tatzelwurm
Tatzelwurm
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, July 25, 2011 | 2:17 PM
The tatzelwurm (German for “worm with claws”) has been reported for at least two centuries and possibly longer, mostly (though not entirely) in the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Although unrecognized by zoology, figures in a number of sighting reports in the Alps and in one dubious photograph. Aside from vague folk traditions of a mountain-dwelling dragon with a catlike head and spiked ridges