The Bullroarer Atlas

SEIDEL1896-002 - ethnographic attestation

Boys below school age at Gutzlaffshagen

Germany - Gut Gutzlafshagen - modern Gutzlaffshagen near Garz - Rugen - Central Europe

Play / practical

The same page records very young boys using the Schwirrholz at Gut Gutzlafshagen on Rugen.
The same page records very young boys using the Schwirrholz at Gut Gutzlafshagen on Rugen. 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

At Gut Gützlafshagen on Rügen, even boys below school age knew how to use the Schwirrholz, carrying the old whirling toy into the island's youngest hands.

Knaben unter dem schulpflichtigen Alter mit dem Schwirrholz umzugehen wussten

boys below school age knew how to use the bullroarer

Seidel 1896:340
Object
Seidel records the same simple Schwirrholz at the named estate; the notice gives no separate dimensions, attachment details, or object figure.
Function
Boys below school age knew how to use it.
Map confidence
medium_high - Gutzlaffshagen hamlet anchor near Garz on Rugen; not an asserted estate-building coordinate.
Source location
printed p. 340

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