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Die ältesten Legenden der hl. Kümmernis (Ont-kommer, Wilgefortis)
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Year: 1914 Publisher: Kempten München Jos. Kösel

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The female crucifix : images of St. Wilgefortis since the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 128092537X 9786610925377 0889209391 9780889209398 0889203652 9780889203655 Year: 2001 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

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Featuring more than twenty illustrations, including several works of art that were rediscovered by the author and are published here for the first time, The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages provides a new perspective on a very old phenomenon. The legendary bearded female St. Wilgefortis, also known by a variety of other names including "Kummernis" and "Uncumber," was the object of fervent veneration in areas of Western and Central Europe for almost half a millennium. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the legend of her dramatic

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