Onion calendar
The onion calendar is an old oracle custom that was usually practiced on New Year's Eve in Swabia , the Ore Mountains , Jizera Mountains , Silesia and Transylvania .
During the twelve nights or on New Year's Eve , an onion was cut into 12 pods, each of which was given a month name and sprinkled with salt. The next morning, depending on the amount of moisture in the bowl-shaped onion skin, the amount of rain or dryness of the month in question should be visible.
In the Ore Mountains, after just one hour, it was believed that the wettest month of the year could be read from the bowl in which the salt had absorbed the largest amount of water.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Jungbauer: Onion Calendar , in: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli with the participation of Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (ed.), Concise Dictionary of German Superstition, Volume 9, unaltered reprint of the Berlin and Leipzig 1927 edition, Berlin 1987, column 971
literature
- Josef Haltrich: On the folklore of the Transylvanian Saxons. Smaller fonts , in a new arrangement ed. by Johann Wolff, Vienna 1885, page 283
- Ernst John: Superstition, Customs and Customs in the Saxon Ore Mountains. A contribution to German folklore , Annaberg 1909, page 182
- Gustav Jungbauer : Onion Calendar , in: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli with the participation of Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (ed.), Concise Dictionary of German Superstition, Volume 9, unaltered reprint of the Berlin and Leipzig 1927 edition, Berlin 1987, column 971
- Paul Sartori: Customs and Customs , 3 volumes, (= Handbooks for Folklore 5–8), Leipzig 1910–14, Volume 3, page 72