New Year`s to Palm Sunday

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New Year`s to Palm Sunday

	Brauch ist nun aber keine beliebige, spontan ablaufende Handlung, sondern erfordert eine bestimmte Regelmäßigkeit und Wiederkehr, eine den Brauch ausübende Gruppe, für die dieses Handeln Bedeutung erlangt, sowie einen durch Anfang und Ende gekennzeichneten Handlungsablauf, dessen formale wie zeichenhafte Sprache der Trägergruppe bekannt sein muß.
	Andreas C. Bimmer, 1994

January 5th

Nights when spirits walk

Spook night: masked procession, around 1935

Spook night: smoking out evil spirits

January 6th

Epiphany

Epiphany singers in Vienna, 1935

Evil spirits

"Glöcklerlauf" procession, Salzkammergut

Trolls and witches in Pongau, Salzburg

Evil spirits in Pinzgau, Salzburg

Late January

Driving out winter, every 3 years

Salzburg youths driving out the winter

February 2nd

Feast of the Purification of the Virgin

"Maria Lichtmeß" procession, Carinthia

Tyrolean Shrove Tuesday celebrations, every 4 years

Shrove Tuesday in Tyrol, making a wooden mask, around 1934

Shrove Tuesday in Tyrol, witches' sabbath, around 1934

Shrove Tuesday procession in Tyrol

Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter

Palm Sunday procession in Lunz am See, Lower Austria, 1920's

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