Stuffo is the name of a supposed Germanic god, who originates from various late medieval legends from Germany related to Saint Boniface.
[1] Two mountain-top locations have been proposed as sites of worship for Stuffo: the Staufenberg near Gießen, in Hesse; and the Stuffenberg, now Hülfensberg, in the Eichsfeld district, Thuringia.
[2] The source for the latter designation comes from the 1602 Historia S. Bonifacii by Johannes Letzner, who claims that after Boniface destroyed the Donar Oak near Geismar (now in Fritzlar, Hesse) he traveled to the Stuffenberg in Eichsfeld, where the god Stuffo was worshiped by the local population.
[6] A nineteenth-century Eichsfeld historian, Dr. Konrad Zehrt, combines the Donar Oak and the Stuffo accounts, and locates them both on the Hülfensberg.
[7] Various etymologies were offered for the name, including derivation from the Middle High German word sûfen ("drinking to excess"),[8] which led to Stuffo being associated with drunkenness.