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The Hisgier (also: Hisgir ) "is a hooded figure who goes from house to house on Latars or Easter Monday in some villages of the Markgräflerland with a companion while singing verses and begging for eggs, flour, butter and other things".
In Protestant parishes, especially in southern Baden, he appears as a male figure, loudly demanding and noisy in the form of a straw doll and stands opposite the figure of the female brood , which symbolizes the budding spring.
Both figures go back to old fertility rites to drive out winter.
Web links
- Martin Pfefferle: badische-zeitung.de: "Dr Hisgier is a good ma" . Badische Zeitung , April 19, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Post: Alemannic dictionary . P. 156, sv Hißgier
- ↑ Volker Münch: badische-zeitung.de: Old custom revived - In Laufen "Uffahrt-Brütli" were on the way again . Badische Zeitung , May 15, 2010
- ↑ Sigrid Umiger: badische-zeitung.de: De Hisgier ical brave Maa . Badische Zeitung , May 15, 2010