{"id":"MINE2026-084","label":"Slovak Malaczka-area toy Schwirrholz","people_or_site":"Slovak villages around Malaczka","country_current":"Slovakia","historic_region":"West slope of the Little Carpathians around Malaczka (now Malacky)","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrholz","source_language":"German","object_description":"Smooth rectangular wooden blade about 15 cm long, perforated like a sieve and tied by its narrow end to a whip-thong.","function_summary":"Children’s whirled toy.","attestation_type":"historical_text","source_key":"SCHUKOWITZ1896_MALACZKA","source_type":"folklore_journal","source_url":"https://volkskundemuseum.at/jart/prj3/volkskundemuseum/data/uploads/downloads/OeZV_Volltexte/ZOEV_1896.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 256","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Malacky town anchor only; the source names Slovak villages around Malaczka, not the town itself.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Children in the Slovak villages around Malacky made a bullroarer that looked like a wooden sieve: a smooth rectangular blade, about fifteen centimetres long, peppered with holes. Tied by its narrow end to a whip-thong, the perforated board whirled and sounded in the open air.","pull_quote":"Ein flaches, glattes, rechteckiges, etwa 15 cm langes, siebartig durchlochertes Holzblättchen wird mit der Schmalseite an einen Peitschenriemen gebunden und in der Luft gewirbelt.","pull_quote_translation":"A flat, smooth rectangular little wooden blade, about 15 cm long and perforated like a sieve, is tied by its narrow side to a whip-thong and whirled in the air.","pull_quote_cite":"Hans Schukowitz, 'Schwirrhölzer' (1896), p. 256.","term_gloss":"Schwirrholz = German 'whirring wood'; here the source's name for the flat, cord-whirled Malaczka toy.","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":"Hans Schukowitz, 'Schwirrhölzer,' Zeitschrift für österreichische Volkskunde 2 (1896), p. 256","url":"https://volkskundemuseum.at/jart/prj3/volkskundemuseum/data/uploads/downloads/OeZV_Volltexte/ZOEV_1896.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230812060000/https://volkskundemuseum.at/jart/prj3/volkskundemuseum/data/uploads/downloads/OeZV_Volltexte/ZOEV_1896.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Hans Schukowitz, 'Schwirrhölzer,' Zeitschrift für österreichische Volkskunde 2 (1896), p. 256","source_display":"Hans Schukowitz, 'Schwirrhölzer,' Zeitschrift für österreichische Volkskunde 2 (1896), p. 256","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Smooth rectangular wooden blade about 15 cm long, perforated like a sieve and tied by its narrow end to a whip-thong.","function_display":"Children’s whirled toy.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"historical text","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"slovak villages","display_name":"Slovak Malaczka-area toy Schwirrholz","image":{"full":"assets/objects/SEM2026-001_sem_0021839.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/SEM2026-001_sem_0021839_thumb.jpg","alt":"A wooden brnivka bullroarer with a broad tapered blade and white cord tied through a hole near one end.","credit":"Slovenski etnografski muzej, 630:LJU;0021839","license":"© Slovene Ethnographic Museum — rehosted low-res for non-commercial research (contact-to-license)","source_page":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/digitalne-zbirke/ljudska-glasbila/630lju0021839","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Slovenian brnivka folk bullroarer.","pool_id":"auto-SEM2026-001_sem_0021839"},"slug":"mine2026-084-slovak-villages-around-malaczka"}