Sack lines
Sack stretching is still a seldom practiced custom in the central Black Forest . The custom is carried out by young people on the occasion of the autumn house slaughter on the Black Forest farms and originally had the purpose of providing meat and sausage to the poor in the village.
A Bohnenstange a linen bag is attached, which contains a Schandbrief. This letter of shame is traditionally written in rhyming form and is a humorous listing of the "misdeeds" of the farmer or those belonging to the farm, it ends with the threat to publish the listed outrages. The bag stretchers sneak into the courtyard in the dark of the night and knock on the window with the beanpole and then hide.
The farmer is now required to fill this sack with meat and sausages and to put the pole back in place. Then again the male members of the farm, as well as the butcher and his journeymen lay in wait to catch the sack truck. A wild chase usually breaks out when they are picked up. If one of the bag stretchers is caught, his face is colored black with soot and he is forced to eat butcher's soup with his hands tied behind his back .
See also
swell
- Schenkenzell : Historical pageant Sunday, July 17, 2005, action by the Halden witches
- X / 116 (1964, 20'15) language document from Hinterheubach district Rottweil
- Customs and customs in the Sankt Georgen area around nineteen hundred (1900), a video from the Waldshut district media office