Word: engert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beckoning Mouse. The cave is accordingly called the Cave of the Virgins' Hollow. It has traditionally been shunned by most, but not by old Farmer Johannes Engert, who figured that the princesses may have stored treasure there. He defied their ghosts and dug in the cave. One night, while Engert was digging by candlelight, a red mouse came out of a hole, sat down on its haunches and beckoned to him. He told the neighbors about this unnerving event and thereafter they left him alone in his nocturnal diggings...
...Farmer Engert found no treasure, but he did find fragments of pottery, stone implements and bone, which he showed to the schoolteacher in the village of Tiefenellern. The relics eventually got to Dr. Otto Kunkel, curator of the prehistoric department of the Bavarian National Museum. Dr. Kunkel suspected their importance and encouraged a thorough exploration of the cave where the red mouse beckoned...