1/ If you made some mistakes in your scientific works in the past, don't feel bad - I just caught the Brothers Grimm in making a citation error.
archive.org/details/deutsc…
archive.org/details/deutsc…
2/ In their "Deutsche Sagen" collections of German legends (not to be confused with their better-known fairy tale collection), they describe "Noth-Hemden", or magical shirts that will protect their wearers from injury.
3/ This was still early in their career, when they wrote citations into their folk tale collections. And the first citation they used was for:
"Joh. Weier von Teufels-Gespenstern B. 8. Cap. 18."
"Joh. Weier von Teufels-Gespenstern B. 8. Cap. 18."
4/ This refers to the German-language translations of "De praestigiis daemonum", a 1563 work by Dutch medical doctor Johann Weier discussing witchcraft superstitions (and Weier did indeed see these as _superstitions_, not as real black magic).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_praest…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_praest…
5/ So what's the problem? Well, the Brothers Grimm cited "Book 8, Chapter 18" of that work... but "De praestigiis daemonum" is only divided into six books.
6/ As I discovered, the actual section on these "Emergency Shirts" is in Book _5_, chapter 18 - not Book 8.
As you can see, citation errors can happen to the best of us, so don't sweat it!
digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb101…
As you can see, citation errors can happen to the best of us, so don't sweat it!
digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb101…
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