As legend has it, Dietrich von Bern, who travelled along the old Roman road from the south to Tyrol, was also accompanied by the Giant Haymona nobleman from the Rhenish family who was "very pious". He killed another giant, the wild man, in a fight, who devastated the fields and the farmers asked him to continue to protect them as their lord. Haymon's young lordship, however, wanted a local giant from the Seefeld region, Thyrsusnot tolerate.

The battle between the two giants took place where the small village of Zirl lies today on the Oberinntal road. They met at the Reschenfuhrung, as shown in the beautiful painting in the Wilten Abbey Church in Innsbruck. Haymonthe Christian knight with sword and shield, Thyrsusthe heathen brutes, with a monstrous, sharp-toothed Swiss stone pine wood. Haymon was victorious. Thyrsus, struck to death, fled to the mountains outside Seefeld, where, dying, he let his blood flow into the rock so that his peasants could draw healing power from it:

"Go to it, liquid blood,
That's good for animals and people!"

With these last words, Thyrsus honoured the Seefeld and Reither farmers with a valuable asset, the "Thyrsus blood" or Deer oilthe later Ichthyol.

Haymon repented of his misdeed and, as atonement, built the holy and silent work on the site of his battle: Wilten Abbey. He then continued to live as a penitent in a cave on the mountain cone. At the death of his rampart, he once bared the precious oil, as the reconciled place also prophesied.

The farmers of the Seefeld area used this thyrsus remedy as a "local" one by the above deification word. The frequent slate shards with their oil-containing thyrsus liquid vessels were placed on a hearth where they were heated by vapourisation and sweating. Ichthyol The oil, which was obtained from the Seefeld oil fishermen for centuries, was used as a healing oil, for heating ointments such as the Maximilian rooms ointments and rollers used in Brixen or in the Vienna hospital. But ichthyol, stripped of its fine petroleum and resinous residues, unleashes the innermost primal being.

That from Deer oil The idea that it was the blood of the slain giant Thyrsus, as the Seefeld farmers believed when they painstakingly extracted it from the stone high above the Inn Valley, symbolising the struggle between the Germanic tribes with their culture and mountain skills and the indigenous population, is hard to grasp. Ichthyol - according to the Greek text on fish oil - does not give off a toxic or sweet and sour odour, which often occurs with stinky oils.

Just as in the depiction that this valuable healing oil is from a Christian giant, which the giant Thyrsus left him, the idea that organic life was the basis of this lifeblood, the fish and other aquatic creatures, is also prevalent in the naming of ichthyol in the shale putty for human use. However, such fish remains are not usually found in the actual ichthyol shale, but only in the rock; the name ichthyol can therefore not be regarded as so justified because this rock shale and crude oil are undoubtedly particularly rich in sulphur. The Seefeld shale contains up to 10 % crude oil and, despite a lot of resin and fat, little sulphur. The sulphur is said to have completed the healing effect.

The German pharmacopoeia recommends ichthyol against inflammatory processes on the skin and limbs. It also belongs to a noble stock of urotropin therapy, but ichthyol is also widely used in veterinary medicine.