#4.There is a statue of a guy stuffing a baby in his mouth in Switzerland, and nobody knows why!
If you ever get the opportunity to visit the city of Bern in Switzerland, there is a statue that you don’t want to miss.Child Eater, or as the Swiss call it “Kindlifresser”, shows a half of a baby stuffed in the mouth of an ogre, while he is carrying three other infants in his arm. This weird statue was built over 500 years ago, in 1546,and is,actually,one of the first fountains built in Bern.
Sadly,nobody knows the story behind the statues. According to one, it present Kronos,a Titan from the Greek Mythology, who ate all his children in order to keep the throne.The other theory suggests anti Semitism, and is supported by the fact that the ogre is wearing a hat similar to the type Jews were made to wear then. At the time, people believed Jews took away Christian children for their blood rituals, hence the baby-eating statue. The third theory is probably the most fitting, it suggests Kindlifresser is a bogeyman and the statue should scare the children and make them behave.
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