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Updated: May 12, 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?
Once more the Khond custom of pouring water on the buried flesh of the victim is parallel to the European customs of pouring water on the personal representative of the corn-spirit or plunging him into a stream. Both the Khond and the European customs are rain-charms. To return now to the Lityerses story.
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