Case file · Cryptid
Tatzelwurm
A cat-faced, lizard-like 'mountain dragon' of Alpine folklore.
1660 CE · 46.70, 9.60 · status: legend
The account
A man named Andreas Roduner described meeting a four-legged, cat-faced dragon in 1660, and Swiss naturalists recorded dragon sightings in 1680 and 1723.
The sceptical view
An 1887 study argued that these creatures were all known lizards or snakes.