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====Rosenkranz mine, Annaberg==== Purportedly a mountain demon incident caused 12 fatalities at a mine named Rosenkrans at Anneberg{{Refn|As also reported by Olaus Magnus,<ref name="olaus-eng"/> discussed below.}} or rather Rosenkranz{{sfnp|Wolfersdorf|1968|p=121}}{{sfnp|Heilfurth|Greverus|1967|pp=105, 347}} or Rosenkrone{{sfnp|Heilfurth|Greverus|1967|p=347}} (Corona Rosacea<ref name="wothers2019"/>) at [[Annaberg-Buchholz]], in the Erzgebirge ([[Ore Mountains]]) in [[Saxony]].{{sfnp|Wolfersdorf|1968|p=40}} The demon took on the guise of the horse, and killed the twelve men with its breath, according to Agricola.{{Refn|{{langx|la|"Flatum vero emittebat ex rictu"}}<ref name="agricola1614"/> apparently omitted by the Hoovers, Wothers provides his own translation that it "only with his breath killed more than twelve labourers" and comments on the demon appearing in horse's guise, and issuing poison breath out of its mouth.<ref name="wothers2019"/> Cf. {{langx|de|Anhauch}}.{{sfnp|Wolfersdorf|1968|p=40}}}}{{Refn|Calmet states "spirit in the shape of a spirited, snorting horse", citing a different title, "Geo. Agricola, ''de Mineral. Subterran.'', p. 504"<ref name="calmet1850"/>}}
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