Hair men

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Hair male, pencil drawing from the hair region

The hair man is a legendary figure who is known in the area of ​​the hair strand and the Möhne . It appears as an antagonist of legends and ballad-like texts , in which it plays tricks on travelers, for example, and especially at night it causes mischief.

Characteristics

The hair man can be found in mostly orally transmitted stories without historical authentication, but which mostly relate to certain real people or places. The male haired man can appear in different shapes, often in animal shapes or animal-like shapes. In all legends, the good, embodied by the Christian, often symbolized by the cross (e.g. cross of the ways ) prevails . In the face of it, the power of the uncanny or spooky that the hair man wields vanishes, and the uncanny form of the hair man falls into nothingness, only to affect other people elsewhere in a frightening form - but only up to that of the hair man in the respective one Say the geographic boundary that has been set (e.g. up to a certain boundary stone or the like).

Collections

Texts about the hair man were compiled, for example by Eberhard Henneböle , which were later supplemented and edited by Ulrich Grun.

Examples

The hair man

If you go over sleeping hair at night,
from Menzel to hairhairing,
don't think that you are rid of all worries
and that you could soon be warm at home.

The hair-man crawled out of the linden tree,
to be found at Menzel's hair-path ,
to atone for what iniquitous courage it conjured up,
to atone for the sins of greed.

It blurs the paths with a misty breath,
you err as if blinded by the will-o'-the-wisp,
you do not see the wise man, you do not see tree and bush.
Heaven sends no starlight to you.

Often the ghost only gives you a quiet escort,
Often it jumps suddenly on your back,
Until a protruding image of the cross frees you
from painful gagging and pressure.

And panting along the way, a shaggy dog
with eyes like glowing coals,
It's the hair man who creeps
around on crackling soles in the night .

And there is still a bunch of roughage crouching in the field,
After the harvest has long been recovered,
The hair man is stuck in the sad loss
And here quietly waits for the morning.

Only once a year a domestic rooster can jump
closer to the village,
where
hidden treasures still lie glowing in the hole of the brickwork .

Centuries dwindled; the rooster crowed,
the little haired man rummaged in the treasure, then
they called for the pastor and sacristan,
to banish him again from the place.

Now it haunts again through the home corridor,
With dark powers in league,
To atone for avarice and the sinful oath,
Sighing makes the rounds again:

From Menzel to Drewer, from Effeln to Haar
A cock's pace may only give way;
The step of a rooster only once a year -
and the village will never reach it.

On the crooked field

The old Jew Aron from Rüthen once had an encounter with the hair man, when he wanted to take the path home through the crooked field at the end of the evening. There an animal had jumped on his neck, the size of a slaughter dog, which he had to bear heavily. Only at the stone cross in front of the Hachtor did the animal let go of him and run back to Haar. Aron arrived home exhausted and disturbed. Since then, he has warned everyone not to walk across the field late at night.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tales of the Haarmännchen / The Haarmännchen wants to go to the city of Rüthen. In: Reinhard Laumanns (Hrsg.): Heimatblätter Lippstadt . Issue 2 of volume 36. Laumanns, Lippstadt 1955, p. 16 .
  2. ↑ Heimatblätter Lippstadt 5/1955, p. 38. In: Reinhard Laumanns (Ed.): Heimatblätter Lippstadt . Issue No. 5 of volume 36. Laumanns, Lippstadt 1955, p. 38 .
  3. ↑ Albert Rüschenschmidt: The hair man . In: Westfälischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Heimatpflege in Westfalen . Volume 5, 21st year. Münster 2008, p. 25 .
  4. ↑ Ulrich Grun (Ed.): Das Haarmännchen. Legends from the region around Haar and Möhne. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-229-5 , p. 10-11 .
  5. ↑ Ulrich Grun (Ed.): Das Haarmännchen. Legends from the region around Haar and Möhne. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-229-5 , p. 11 .

literature

  • Reinhard Laumanns (Ed.): Heimatblätter Lippstadt. Issue 2, year 36, Lippstadt 1955, p. 16
  • Reinhard Laumanns (Ed.): Heimatblätter Lippstadt. Issue 5, year 36, Lippstadt 1955, p. 38
  • Ulrich Grun (Ed.): The hair man. Legends from the region around Haar and Möhne. Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-229-5
  • Albert Rüschenschmidt: Hair men. In: Westfälischer Heimatbund (Hrsg.): Heimatpflege in Westfalen. Volume 21 (2008), Issue 5, Münster 2008, p. 25, ISSN  0933-6346