In the second part of Faust, he encountered an echidna and realized that he did not understand
“Oh wonder! The clew turned into an egg,
The egg swelled up — what is within?
Two dreadful twins emerged —
A vampire with an echidna — from the egg.
The echidna writhes here crawling,
The vampire hovers under the ceiling”
It turned out that in the lexicon of the 18th-19th centuries, an echidna was a venomous snake. I mean, sarcastic, spiteful, sharp, cunning, mocking me, of course, I know this word, but that it literally signified a snake, I learned for the first time. And in Greek mythology, the half-woman half-snake Echidna was apparently the mother of Hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, and Cerberus
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