Passau art

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As Passauer art were designated a superstition among soldiers from the 17th century, which was supposed to protect against injuries caused by gunshots, blows or bites.

The belief essentially corresponds to mooring , a belief that has long been widespread among soldiers that certain spells can be used to make yourself invulnerable. The concept of Passau art as a synonym or variant of mooring probably goes back to the Passau executioner Kaspar Neidhart from Hersbruck (see also Executioner's House Passau ), who is said to have sold notes with mysterious symbols to the soldiers of Matthias II City camped. According to the charlatan , this should secure the soldiers against gunshot, blow and stabbing. According to various traditions, the notes were either eaten or sewn into a bag and carried on the chest. The oldest records of it date back to the years 1615 and 1631.

Another derivation leads the word back to a corruption of the Yiddish word "Pessel". However, this is rejected as incorrect by other authors.

The art of Passau became famous through the subsequent success in the battles with his brother Rudolf II for Bohemia , in which Matthias' troops remained almost without losses. In the following years of the Thirty Years War , Passau art was widespread among soldiers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Friedrich Christian Benedict Avé-Lallemant: Das Deutsche Gaunerthum . FA Brockhaus s, Leipzig 1862, p. 153-155 ( online ).
  2. ^ HW: On Passau Art . In: V. Streffleur (ed.): Austrian military magazine . tape 1 , third issue. Kaiserl. Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1862, p. 176 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Nikolas Funke: Naturali legitimâque Magica . The 'mooring' in the military in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Working group for the military and society in the early modern period (ed.): Military and society in the early modern period . tape 13 , no. 1 . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009, ISSN  1617-9722 , p. 16–32 ( online (PDF; 270 kB)).
  4. ↑ See also the novella Die Passauer Kunst by August Bechtold (1832)