Donut begging

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Typical donut-begging mood in a room, in the foreground you can see the "sour donuts"

The donut begging , even Krapfenschnappen or Krapfenschnaggeln , is an old Heischebrauch which to All Saints or All Souls' Day in South and East Tyrol is widespread.

Local boys or men dressed in disguise are given donuts baked in lard with various fillings for their poetry recitation. If many donut beggars come into the house, it means a good and productive year.

procedure

Donut beggars dress up with a face mask made of white linen with eye slits and a long nose. In small groups or individually, the donut beggars visit the surrounding farms after dark. They announce their presence with knocks and sayings, which are uttered in fistulous voices . “La inna, if it be a goiter bed!” (“Only come in if there are donut beggars !”) Is the welcome invitation from within. The donut beggars then introduced themselves with a saying, such as:

"I am a kloans Zapfl
and ask for a Krapfl,
for a mogans odo a griens,
an liåbigschtn was må a gånz a schians." 		"I'm a little wretch,
and I ask for a donut,
for one filled with poppy seeds or with a green filler,
I would like a nice one."

Quote from Pfunders at Vintl

The donut beggars thank the hosts with a chat or with a serenade with a dance, if an accordion or harmonica is there. All tricks are used to elicit the identity of the hooded donut beggars in conversation. These in turn make fun of fooling the host family as skilfully as possible by giving roles theatrically.

origin

The origins of donut begging, described as an old custom in literature, lie in worshiping the dead and believing in spirits with the hope of fertility.

In ancient times, some of the begged donuts were placed on graves. On the eve of All Saints' Day, the donuts were given to poor people going from house to house as gifts, and they were brought to the disabled or bedridden by donut beggars.

literature

  • Dr. Paul Gruber: VINTL history and present of a community published by the rifle company Bartlmä von Guggenberg, Vintl 1981, production: Athesiadruck Bozen, p. 480 ff.

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