{"id":"EUEXP-001","label":"Black Forest (Germany) Schlägel bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Black Forest folk survival (unnamed group)","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Black Forest / Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"Schlägel","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Flat wooden slat whirled on a cord; folk survival in the Black Forest, local dialect term Schlägel.","function_summary":"Folk toy/secular survival; no ritual function recorded.","attestation_type":"secondary_catalog","source_key":"haddon1898study","source_type":"source_catalog","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd","page_or_plate":"p. 285","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Black Forest regional centroid; representative anchor, no more precise locality given by Haddon.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the Black Forest the whirled wooden slat had a dialect name of its own, Schlägel, and at Basel, just over the border, the toy turned up at the fairs. A German friend who had seen it in the forest passed the word to A. C. Haddon, who set it among Europe's last survivals of the bull-roarer.","pull_quote":"A German friend has informed me that he has seen the bull-roarer in the Black Forest, where it is known as Schlägel; and I have also heard that it is sometimes seen in fairs at Basel in Switzerland.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Haddon 1898, The Study of Man, p. 285","term_gloss":"Schlägel — German for a \"mallet\" or \"beater\" (a variant of Schlegel); the Black Forest name Haddon's friend reported for the bull-roarer.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","url":"https://archive.org/details/studyofman00hadd"}],"source_citations":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","source_display":"A. C. Haddon, The Study of Man (1898), Ch. X 'The Bull-Roarer', p. 285","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Flat wooden slat whirled on a cord; folk survival in the Black Forest, local dialect term Schlägel.","function_display":"Folk toy/secular survival; no ritual function recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"secondary catalog","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"black forest","display_name":"Black Forest (Germany) Schlägel bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EUEXP-001_nuremberg_1974-253_schwirrholz.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EUEXP-001_nuremberg_1974-253_schwirrholz_thumb.jpg","alt":"German Schwirrholz at the Nuremberg Toy Museum: a golden wooden oval blade with scalloped carving and a cord through the top hole, beside an inventory label and ruler.","credit":"Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer), 1974.253 — via Europeana","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"http://www.vino-online.net/anonymous.php?DBApp=spnb&application=spnb_detail&role=Recherche&Ident=INV_INVNR&Value=1974.253","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A German Schwirrholz toy at the Nuremberg Toy Museum."},"slug":"euexp-001-black-forest-folk-survival-unnamed-group"}