Pentecostal quack
The Whitsun quack is a prayerful custom from the Palatinate and Alsace , in which children walk through the village on Whitsun with colorfully decorated handcarts - the “ Whitsun quack” - and serenade , for which they get eggs, bacon or money.
The folklorist Helmut Seebach derives the word "Quack" from the dialect expression customary in the Palatinate for the nestling , the young bird that was carried around as a symbol of summer. He classifies the quack custom under the fool 's custom , where the last person who has come, similar to the “ wild man ”, is parodistically mocked and honored as the “king of fools”; the foliage of the quack corresponds to the stained robe of the fool, the flower hat of the crown.
The custom is cultivated in the Saar-Palatinate towns of Limbach (Kirkel) , Altstadt (Kirkel) , Niederbexbach and Wolfersheim , the Palatinate towns of Bechhofen , Käshofen Blaubach , Matzenbach Dimbach , Ruppertsweiler and Lemberg , as well as in some Hunsrück communities of the Thalfang ( Bäsch , Immert) community , Talling ) and in several Alsatian places.
literature
- Wilhelm Mannhardt: Forest and field cults , p. 312, 357 Preview in the Google book search.
Web links
- Gottfried Keller's Green Heinrich as Whitsun quack on heimat-pfalz.de
- Whit Quack on asvglashuette.de
- Whitsun (Pingste) in Kleinich on hvv-kirchspiel-kleinich.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Seebach: Gottfried Keller's "Green Heinrich" as Whitsun quack ; Extract from: Helmut Seebach: Summer day, Easter, Pentecost, St. John's day. Old festivals in the Palatinate. Volume 3, Annweiler-Queichhambach 1998 online
- ↑ Wonderfully colorful Pentecostal tradition. In: Pfälzischer Merkur from May 16, 2018
- ↑ Maintenance of tradition. For the Whitsun quack in the beer garden. In: Pfälzischer Merkur from May 14, 2018
- ↑ The Quackers are out and about in Niederbexbach and Altstadt. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de. June 6, 2014, accessed May 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Village youngsters on tour with Pfingstquack in Käshofen. In: pfaelzischer-merkur.de. May 29, 2012, archived from the original on October 9, 2016 ; accessed on May 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Whitsun Quack - Village History Blaubach ( Memento from July 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Whitsun quack. In: matzenbach.de. Retrieved on May 31, 2017 (from the commemorative publication for the 675th anniversary of the village of Gimsbach and 250 years of the church).
- ↑ Whitsun quack. In: dimbach.de. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
- ^ "Pentecost Quack" on Pentecost Sunday . In: Official Journal of the Verbandsgemeinde Pirmasens-Land, week 21, 2017.