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Updated: May 6, 2025
The drenching of the Pfingstl with water and his wading up to the middle into the brook are, therefore, no doubt rain-charms like those which have been already described. But if these personages represent, as they certainly do, the spirit of vegetation in spring, the question arises, Why kill them?
Now in point of fact such a custom has left unmistakable traces of itself in the rural festivals of the peasantry. To take examples. At Niederpöring, in Lower Bavaria, the Whitsuntide representative of the tree-spirit the Pfingstl as he was called was clad from top to toe in leaves and flowers.
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