Brazen head
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brazen-head-170-17158414
title:
Brazen head
text:
A brazen head, brass, or bronze head was a legendary automaton in the Middle ages to the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards. Made of brass or bronze, the male head was variously mechanical or magical. Like Odin's head of Mimir in Norse paganism, it was reputed to be able to correctly answer any question put to it, although it was sometimes restricted to "yes" or "no" answers. In the seventeent
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Legendary automaton in the early modern period
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_head
date created:
2006-12-07T14:34:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:20:15Z
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