medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thank you, Brenda. I now know on whom to blame all my typos. I should love
to have a picture of the "Druckfehlerteufel".
Tittivillus' sphere of activity has been enlarged even more by the
word-processor, at least by mine. It seems to me that every mistake I
corrected in my proofs generated another, worse one. Of course, unkind
persons might suggest that this is simply a case of a bad workman- oops,
workperson- and his/her tools.
Bernadette Filotas.
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From: "Ms Brenda M. Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> > May I suggest that machine-(ill)formatted HTML may
> > provide modern justification for the medieval belief
> > in demons?
>
> A demon called Tittivillus in particular. In preliterate days he went
round
> evesdropping on (women's) conversations to collect - and display -
examples
> of malicious and uncharitable gossip on the Day of Judgement. He was
> provided with a very large sack for this purpose. Then he began to infest
> scriptoria and collected written errors for the same purpose. With the
> invention of printing he entered into a new phase of activity and went for
> typographical errors. He is the diabolical patron of the spelling mistake
> and I have spent a lifetime trying to exorcise him but without total
> success. (As they say "Dyslexia lures - KO")
> He has had some spectacular successes manipulating the spell checkers on
my
> computer. His best success was when he changed "Matthew Paris" to "Matched
> Paris" and we never spotted it until after the article was printed.
>
> I have no evidence but believe this little monster is the devil-father of
> the computer virus.......
>
> I have a very nice illustration of him - modern, German where he is known
as
> the "Druckfehlerteufel" - that I could scan and send to anyone who would
> like to be better acquainted with this pest. Believe me, you will have
> encountered him whether you know it or not!!
>
> BMC
>
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