The Bullroarer Atlas

SEIDEL1896-001 - ethnographic attestation

Children or users of Ratzebuhr otherwise unrecorded

Poland - Ratzebuhr - Kreis Neustettin - Hinterpommern - modern Okonek - Central Europe

Function not recorded

Seidel's 1896 page records the Schwirrholz still in use at Ratzebuhr, now Okonek.
Seidel's 1896 page records the Schwirrholz still in use at Ratzebuhr, now Okonek. H. Seidel, Das Schwirrholz in Hinterpommern und Rugen, Globus 70 (1896), p. 340 Public domain Image source

Source term: Schwirrholz

Schwirrholz: generic German bullroarer term; no separate local name is recorded

Long after antiquarians had begun filing the Schwirrholz away as a relic, it was still being swung at Ratzebuhr — today's Okonek in Poland — in 1896.

in Ratzebuhr noch heute im Gebrauch

still in use today at Ratzebuhr

Seidel 1896:340
Object
Seidel identifies the locality's object as the same simple Schwirrholz discussed after Figura's mechanically explicit Galician report; he gives no separate Ratzebuhr dimensions or attachment details.
Function
Still in use in 1896; specific function unrecorded.
Map confidence
medium_high - Modern Okonek town anchor for historical Ratzebuhr; no exact use site is recorded.
Source location
printed p. 340

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