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Fext
The fext is a bulletproof undead of central European soldiers' lore. It emerged in the seventeenth century, when the Thirty Years' War devastated Bohemia and the German lands, and the name was applied to generals who survived everything. Its single weakness is a bullet of glass. It is a rare example of a walking-dead belief created by gunpowder warfare.1
- a bullet made of glass
When did it first appear?
1630Legends dating from the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
What the sources say
Described as an undead being that ordinary bullets cannot kill1
The belief grew out of the terrors of the Thirty Years' War1
Some celebrated commanders of the period were called fexts because they seemed impossible to kill1
Only a glass bullet was said to work1
Documented by the Czech writer Martin Stejskal1
Sources
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