Alleged Owners
Among the people reputed to have a brazen head were:
- Roger Bacon (possibly tonsured, like a monk's)
- Odin
- Boethius
- Faust
- Robert Grosseteste
- Albertus Magnus
- Pope Sylvester II
- Arnaldus de Villa Nova
- Enrique de Villena
- Virgil
Butler notes "hese brass heads were so common that people began to believe that there was nothing supernatural about them" (p. 157).
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