The man who defecates coins is a famous leitmotif of many alchemical texts of the twentieth century. In Art Profane et religion populaire au Moyen Age, by Claude Gaignebet et Jean-Dominique Lajoux, we can see how iconology is not an isolated case in the imaginary of the French late Middle Ages.
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