Mazze

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The matzo is an object and the popular uprising in medieval Valais named after it and triggered in a ritualized form .

The object Mazze was mostly a log with a carved human face with grimaceous features.

The seizure of the Mazze was the beginning of a popular uprising. It took place roughly as follows: The matzo was usually hung on a tree in a village square overnight. The following morning the residents gathered and waited for an initiate to pick up the matzo and carry it away. The people followed this man, the matzo master, until he put the matzo on the ground. The inhabitants gathered around the Mazze and began to ask her questions like: "Mazze, what do you want?", "Mazze, what is wrong with you?" Etc. The Mazze naturally remained silent, whereupon the people asked for a lawyer for the Mazze . An eloquent initiate offered himself to the crowd as a lawyer and began questioning the Mazze as well. To make it exciting, he first asked irrelevant questions, whereupon the matzo master shook the matzo in the negative, until after a while in a heated mood the lawyer uttered the correct suspicions and charges. The matzo master then performed a wild, joyful dance with the matzo. The lawyer turned to the people and shouted: “You have heard the complaints of the Mazze, now discuss what to do!” So ​​began the conspiracy, everyone present who agreed with the decisions drove a nail into the Mazze .

The most famous case of Mazzenergreifung in the Valais story took place in 1496 instead, when the France friendly and therefore unpopular Bishop Jost von Silenen was dismissed by the rebellious people of his office and chased within a few days out of the country, which after a brief interlude of his uncle Nicholas Schiner of declared enemy of France Matthäus Schiner came to the bishopric.

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