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  • The baron surprising artillerymen by arriving mounted on a cannonball, illustration from a 19th-century edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe.
    In Baron Münchhausen

    …of such tales appeared in Vademecum für lustige Leute (1781–83; “Manual for Merry People”), all of them attributed to the baron, though several can be traced to much earlier sources.

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