A writer on Fortean subjects, Ulrich Magin turns up wherever old wonders need a second look. On the 1561 Nuremberg woodcut, he argues Glaser updated the heavenly battle theme with the weapons of his day, turning the tubes into cannon barrels. On the 1566 Basel broadsheet, he sees a stock motif. The sky battle as a warning from God. In 2023 he proposed that the Egedes' Davis Strait monster of 1734 was a baleen whale distorted by an Arctic mirage. His book Der Tatzelwurm: Porträt eines Alpenphantoms drew on over 430 eyewitness accounts.
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Writer who argues the text follows a stock sky-battle motif
Proposed a baleen whale distorted by an Arctic mirage (2023)
Pro earlyWriter who compared the Tatzelwurm to giant salamanders
Author of Der Tatzelwurm: Porträt eines Alpenphantoms and Trolle, Yetis, Tatzelwürmer
Pro earlyResearcher who discussed the case in the Zeitschrift für Anomalistik (2018) and compared it with the Bête du Gévaudan
Pro earlyResearcher who traced the case to the 1948 Pittsburgh Press wire story