A Gallery of More Jesters

Three are hundreds and hundreds of jester guilds all over Baden-Württemberg, nobody could visit all of them in a lifetime. Often they participate in jester meetings and parades in other places. Jester meetings are always a great chance to see many new guilds. I got to see many outside their hometowns. Here is a collection of jester figures that I liked for this or that reason, figures I encountered somewhere in the parades. Some are funny, some are weird, some are scary, some are breathtakingly beautiful.

Butz and Butzenzuttel from Hirrlingen

A witch from Rottenburg

Pestmännle and Butzen from Hechingen. Legends tell of a poor little sick man who brought the plague into town and was heavily punished.

Two Weißenberger Weihergeister - yes, there are indeed two posing for my photo.

Moikäf'r Dellmensingen - May beetles

Glottertäler Triibl - Grape spirits from a side valley in the northern Breisgau which is known for its wines

Proof: witches can fly with their broomsticks. The technique needs some improvement, though.

Trees from Empfingen - bewware of them...

Schömberger Fransekleidle, famous for the polonaise they are dancing

Hokema ("hook man"), a water spirit from Impfingen

Sachsenheimer Urzeln: their particularity is the painted gaze mask

Gränz-Pfluderi Waggis from Weil, very close to Basel, 2004 and in their new Häs 2005

Neckarschreck, Stuttgart

Lindauer Binsengeischter with the catch of the day

Grusilochzotti, Lahr

Korkenzieher (Corkscrew drawers) from Lahr - I wonder who drank all that wine to make the Häs

Suggentäler Schreckli