Thiota

Thiota was after the Fulda annals (MGH SS rer. Germ. 7) an Alemannic seer and heretic that occurred in the year 847 and supposed revelations received from God proclaimed. Religion Scientific Thiota is compared with the group of Germanic Seherinen.

Thiota ( " mulier Alamanorum " ) occurred in the diocese of Bishop Solomon of Constance and prophesied the near end of the world and " other things " as a false prophetess ( " pseudoprophetissa "). In the Christian context through their vocation to divine revelation ( " divinitus sibi revelatia " ) transactions thus great effect both in the simple population, as well as members of the Catholic clergy ( " sacri Ordinis viri "). The ecclesiastical authorities opened then a method ( Synod ) against Thiota in Mainz and led them in the church of St. Alban to a survey. Under the psychological pressure of the interview she admitted that the revelations from the authorship of a further unknown presbyter came from and they acted out of personal greed. The Synod condemned Thiota to flogging with rods, then they no longer exhibited.

Unlike Hultgard closes out from the circumstances that the effect of Thiota not without enshrined in the population pagan tradition of the " Old Germanic " Seherinen could be explained. Hermann Reichert points out in the context of the meaning of the name Albruna and Christian priestess Guiliaruna that such traditions is a stable phenomenon in Christianized relatively young Germanic peoples.