Eulenspiegel (i.e. Owl-glass), the hero of a popular German tale, which relates no end of pranks, fortunes, and misfortunes of a wandering mechanic born in a village in Brunswick; buried in 1350 at Mölln, in Lauenburg, where they still show his tombstone sculptured with an owl and a glass.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Euhemerism * Euler, Leonhard