Freischütz

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Illustration to the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber , Act II, 6th appearance. The protagonists Caspar and Max are shown pouring free balls.

In the hunting mythology , the Freischütz (also Freischützen ) is a hunter who is able to achieve complete accuracy by having a free ball . He could acquire this by pouring the ball on a certain date at midnight in a secluded place or by taking aim at the raised host and carving a cross on the ball at midnight mass, hidden in the church, without shooting .

The opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber takes up the motif from the hunting mythology. The motif of the free shooter also appears in a legend about the Glücksburg Forest near Flensburg .

literature

  • Article “Freischütz” in: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Volume 7, 19th edition, Mannheim 1988, ISBN 3-7653-1107-3 , page 636 f.

Web links

Wiktionary: Freischütz  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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