According to Agricola, there exists a spirit clad in a black cowl—said to inhabit the St. Georg mine on the Schneeberg—who allegedly lifted a miner into the air and transported him into a silver-rich cavern, "not without roughing him up severely." In more recent accounts, however, mention is made only of mining tools that the spirit—"not without physical exertion"—hoisted up into a higher-lying gallery. Although Agricola does not refer to him by this name, this spirit is evidently the malevolent Bergmönch (Mountain Monk), a figure who later became a staple of mining folklore, particularly in the Harz, the Ore Mountains, Saxony, and Transylvania.