Post-medieval Reception
The wild man was used as a symbol of Mining in late medieval and Renaissance Germany. It appears in this context in the coats of arms of Naila and of Wildemann. The town of Wildemann in the Upper Harz was founded in 1529 by miners who according to legend met a wild man and wife when they ventured into the wilds of the Harz range
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