Pentecostal

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Pentecostal is a figure in particular from the Upper Palatinate tradition. Whitsun on Pentecost Sunday is the person who is the last of the family to get out of bed. This custom is also known in other areas as the “ Pentecostal Ox ” or “ Palm Donkey ” (on Palm Sunday). The custom of the Pentecost is similar in its form to the festival of Green George . While the protagonist here is wrapped in green branches, the “Pfingstl” appears wrapped in tree bark or straw.

Extended Customs

When the custom was (or was) particularly interesting for children, there were the so-called Whitsun trips.

A possible variant using the example of Raigerings ( Amberg ) was a large horse-drawn carriage covered with straw and decorated with colorful flags and ribbons in which the so-called Pentecostal lout sat. The wagon was pulled through the streets of the village by the fraternity (village youth). The children on the side of the road tried to steal one or more of the flags. However, these were defended by the Whitsun with a stick from inside the car.

In Schalkstetten ( Amstetten municipality ) on the Swabian Alb, the custom of the Whitsun lout is upheld in a completely different way. The male village youth drives a Whitsun lout through the village on Whitsunday, completely wrapped in foliage.

Another variant can still be admired today in the community of Schmidgaden ( district of Schwandorf ). Here a boy is put into a sack and pulled through the village streets by two other boys in a small wagon decorated with colorful flags and ribbons. In order to defend himself from the curious, the Pentecostal got a needle in the sack. At every doorstep, the girls accompanying the Whitsun tour ask for eggs or lard and recite a little poem.

See also

literature

  • The Pentecost. In: Old Bavarian festival and customs calendar . Amberg 2006, p. 61.
  • Gustl Motyka: Whitsun Tail and Whitsun. Customs in the Upper Palatinate for the Whitsun holidays . In: Altbayerische Heimatpost. Munich 51.1999,20, p. 12.
  • Gustl Motyka: Old Upper Palatinate Customs. From New Year to New Year's Eve through the farming year . Regensburg 2002. ISBN 3-931904-93-8

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