Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24042243-20140118170938/@comment-4273152-20140118172313

It just occured to me that the illusrations in the book appear to be from the middle ages, yet they accurately show a platypus wesen. Seeing as how the platypus was unknown to the Europeans until 1798 and native to Australia, I find it odd one would be refernced in a old German book. With an accurate name no less! Interesting how Grimm seems to work.