Epiphany slip
Epiphany slips were blessed slips of paper on Epiphany , which were described with C + M + B , prayers and often with further blessings and sayings.
In southern Germany and Austria, three kings slip was widespread as house protection; in this case they could be attached to the houses instead of the usual star singing blessings written in consecrated chalk. Often, however, like Breverl , they were worn on the body or kept together with other devotional objects .
Other written blessing list were the Agatha list , Saint Benedict Medal and Zacharias blessing .
Epiphany slip. Copper engraving, Salzburg 1745
Epiphany slip. Copper engraving, Munich, 18th century
Sheet with four three kings slips. Cologne, 18th century
Three kings slip printed in three columns
literature
- Lenz Kriss-Rettenbeck: Images and signs of religious folk belief. Callwey, Munich 1963
- Christoph Kurzeder : When things were sacred. Lived piety in the Baroque era. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1769-4 .
- Dominik Wunderlin: Means to Salvation. Religious symbols of blessing and protection in the Dr. Edmund Müller (= treasures from the Dolderhaus in Beromünster, issue 7). Beromünster 2005, ISBN 3-9521775-9-8