Mysterious Doctor Kittel
Doctor Kittel
(from the movie "Eleazar Kittel") |
Johann Josef Antonius Eleazar Kittel (1704 - 1783) was a famous doctor from
the village of Krásná*) in the Jizera Mountains. His unusual healing
skills, readiness to help the poor and big fortune made him a
reputation of having a deal with the Devil himself.
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He was said to fly
to his patients on a magic coat and use magic books to control ravens.
In his huge and mysterious house called Burk were a dissecting room,
human skeletons, a greenhouse with precious herbs and a water spa.
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Doctor Kittel (from the Book written by Karl Fischer)
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"Burk" (drawing by Josef V. Scheybal, 1962)
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When he has grown older, in order to save his soul, Kittel paid the construction of a school, a well with healing water, a rectory and a church. | |