📜 Standing in the middle of Bern, Switzerland, is the Kindlifresser, or 'Child Eater'.
🔍 This unsettling fountain sculpture, built in 1546, depicts a giant with a baby half-stuffed into its mouth and a sack full of three more tots.
Its exact meaning remains a mystery, with theories including a warning to the Jewish community, a depiction of the Greek Titan Kronos, or a representation of Duke Berchtold's jealous older brother. It might also be a 'boogie man' figure from Switzerland’s Fastnacht festival.
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