Panotti

The Panoti, also Panochen, are a legendary people of ears people who were mentioned since antiquity and invented travelogues populated.

Background

Hybrid creatures and grotesque human creatures, such as dog -headed, one-eyed and Einfüßige occurred since ancient times to the descriptions adventurous, but not even experienced travel. So Skylax, Megasthenes and Ctesias told by people whose ears were large enough to wrap her body with it. About this mendacious reports reached the Panoti, named after the Greek word for Allohren, not only in the sagas, but also in the cosmographies the Middle Ages.

Description

Skylax writes to Panoti shovel big ears, according to Ctesias reach their ears around the back and to the elbow. After Mega Stehenes these people sleep on their ears. Later classical authors reported the Panoti as home an island in the Northern Ocean to or let them live in Skytien. With a picture an ear man found 1483 entrance into the World Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel.

With the proliferation of stories about creatures with big ears, the descriptions increased. In the story of "Herzog Ernst " by Gustav Schwab (1792-1850), the ears appear as Panochen people who have ears reaching down to the floor and be defeated by the Duke. In a primitive society the Fanesier be identified as several meters high white giants, who should have been able to wrap their entire body in their giant ears.