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Nothing to see here, dear #histodons , except a human skeleton (with a hat and a feather) riding a #unicorn skeleton that is positioned next to two other animal skeletons (of a bear? and a deer?).
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
And the historian found a source that explains it: the library room is the "Theatrum Anatomicum" of the Altdorf university, and we see a bear, a burglar with a stick and his horse, and a deer. And the story goes that the burglar once terrorized a road near Altdorf, and he was always smoking his tobacco pipe and using his stick. And when he was finally caught, they killed him together with his horse.
To sum up, better do not terrorize streets near universities with a horse and a stick! Or you'll end up as a human skeleton standing in a library room. #academicchatter
But this thread leads to one question, hive-minded followers and friends of Mastodon. Do you know of other examples where an annoying person, a terrorizing burglar, or another deviant, was killed - and his skeleton exhibited in a library?
#histodons, thanks for your reposts and comments!
@dbellingradt Und diese stehen, was die @hab_wf nicht angibt, in der Uni-Bibliothek Altdorf, siehe die Abbildung ohne abgeschnittenen Titel unter https://online-service.nuernberg.de/viewer/image/06858094/52
@dbellingradt Es gibt eine zweite Fassung des Stichs, siehe https://biblio.hypotheses.org/8184. Wobei ich auch dort kein Einhorn, sondern immer nur einen Reiter mit Lanze auf einem Pferd erkennen kann.
@dbellingradt … because librarians are fickle and easy to anger? 
@dbellingradt I guess Lenin comes close. – Stalin probably was annoyed to get reminded of proper communism, and while the mausoleum isn’t a library, there are other mummies in libraries, like in St.Gallen, while I doubt these were terrorizing anyone…
Maybe...
My archives/museum director predecessor found a century-old steamer trunk with an intact human skeleton (child-sized) inside buried away in the basement of our campus museum about a decade ago. No labels or identifying info and I cannot confirm whether it was ever on display or whether the vic was a degen of one sort or another. The working theory is that it was a gift from a doctor many many decades ago as part of a medical collection. Can confirm we do have ghosts. 
@dbellingradt . . . or worse yet, you might end up in a Funhouse painted with glow-in-the-dark paint like Elmer McCurdy! https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/11/the_corpse_of_elmer_mccurdy_and_how_it_ended_up_in_a_long_beach_fun_park.html
@dbellingradt Nope, not the Theatrum Anatomicum 
https://online-service.nuernberg.de/viewer/image/06858094/48/LOG_0017/, just the Bibliotheca publica Universitatis Altdorfinæ.
@dbellingradt Erst später kamen das Pferd des Winterkönigs, der Croate, der Bär und der Hirsch in die Anatomiekammer, s. https://books.google.de?id=WullAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA170
@dbellingradt Präpariert wurden die Skelette laut obigem Buch von https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Hofmann.
@dbellingradt Zum 1669 straffällig gewordenen Hirsch siehe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetzel_von_Kirchensittenbach: "Um 1670 legte Philipp Jacob Tetzel in Engelthal einen Tiergarten, ein Wildgehege, an; dort wurde er 1669 durch eine Hirschangriff tödlich verletzt. [13]"
