Weather blessing (amulet)
The weather blessing was a monstrance - or disk - shaped container that held sacred objects. He has been known since the 15th century.
The weather blessing usually contains an Agnus Dei depiction, around which collage-like reliquary particles , Shabmadons , little crosses, depictions of saints and magical natural products such as stone seeds , pussy willow , red-colored scraps of cloth and other objects are grouped. This accumulation of protective objects, considered particularly effective, is strongly reminiscent of the contents of the Breverl . On the back, various blessing formulas are usually written in five circles. The fifth circle spirals inwards and enumerates invocations of God in the Christian, Jewish and Kabbalistic traditions as incantation and spells .
The weather blessing was hung on the wall at home or in field chapels or set up. It protected against storms, fire, accidents in everyday life, infectious diseases, ghosts, bewitching and diabolical influences.
literature
- Manfred Brauneck : Religious folk art. S. 300. DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-0967-8
- Dominik Wunderlin: Means to Salvation. Religious symbols of blessing and protection in the Dr. Edmund Müller (= treasures from the Dolderhaus in Beromünster, issue 7). Beromünster 2005, ISBN 3-9521775-9-8
- Christoph Kurzeder : When things were sacred. Lived piety in the Baroque era. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1769-4 .
- Christoph Kurzeder, Andrea Schilz: The weather blessing. An all-round insurance package from the 18th century. In the Freundeskreis Freilichtmuseum Südbayern e. V. (Ed.): Freundeskreisblätter 37 , pp. 166–188. Großweil 1998