Biblical myth, awe-inspiring fascination and majestic beauty: few animals have such magical ambivalence as the snake. Elegant in movement and highly efficient in hunting - venomous snakes in particular have been admired and feared at the same time since time immemorial. On the European continent, the family of vipers (lat. Viperidae) is the most common. Well-known representatives are the adder (Vipera Berus) or the Vipera Novaculae. The latter genus was discovered and adequately researched only towards the end of the 1980s in the epicenter of the Italian knife industry, the small town of Maniago in Friuli, by Giovanni Miniutti, Renato Varnerin and Milvio Rosa Gastaldo.