Onion braid

Braid made from onion and garlic bulbs

An onion braid is a decoratively designed, often patterned, braid made of onions . Sometimes garlic bulbs are also used and the braid is decorated with flowers. Onion braids were originally not just braided for durability and home decoration; In European customs this was associated with the notion that the special power of the onion would keep harm and disease away in the stable and house.

Today the onion braid is one of the main objects at the Weimar onion market . Countless onion braids in all colors can be found on the Zibelemärit in Bern .

The people of Riedlingsdorf (Burgenland), where onion braiding has been a tradition for generations, tied a 660 meter long onion braid for the 660th anniversary in 1991, which was ceremoniously carried through the town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rare custom: onion lichen on ORF accessed on January 11, 2017

Web links

• Onion and popular belief
• rbb: Onion braid and defense against disaster etc. ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )