Windpunk and devils
Dansk Meet Tutivillus Tutivillus is the small demon that collects idle chat that occurs during church service, and mispronounced, mumbled or skipped words of the service, to take to Hell to be counted against the offenders. In other words, he performs the magical act of transferring spoken word to signs written on paper ( 1 ). He can be found on Church wall painting from the middle ages. Here he is seen lurking next to a churchgoer, writing her words down during the sermon (where she should be silent). In the Middle Ages he was considered a demon associated with writing and literacy. He introduced errors into scribes’ work copying texts and his exploits were described in paintings, sermons, conduct books and poems. Later he haunted printing presses, causing typesetters to make mistakes. "I am a poure dyuel, and my name ys Tytyvyllus ... I muste eche day ... brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, & of neglygences in syllables and wordes." (The
