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Different customs are done to the harvest home. Hahnrupfen (pulling the rooster) , Kranzreiten (wreath riding), frog cart, Stollenreiften ( field riding). The Hahnrupfen isthe most celebrated custom. The arch adorned with oak leaves is put up on a reaped field. The small things appended at the crossbeam to tear (cigarettes, lollipops, mini-alcohol bottle), off highly try men unmarried to horse. If the horses are broken in on this way, the dead rooster is on hung headfirst. Who tears the head off becomes a first king, the wings mean second and more thirdly king.

Girls in dress accompany this celebration and the kings may themselves with bandaged eyes from this circle select their queen. Horse and riders get an honour wreath from oak leaves and drag the royal couples in the direction of the restaurant for the dance now. The tap is seen as a fertility symbol. Since he has overexerted at the time of the seed and harvest, he is too weak and old as a fertility spirit for a next year and therefore must be plucked.

These are big, high water free sand islands on which farmsteads are usually established. Burg Kauper or Lehde consist for example of these islands. Island in Sorbian: Kupa.

Who plans a visit in the Spreewald also should do a row. Rows have a long tradition. In the past, the small boat was used alone for the transport of goods (hay, cucumbers or cattle) and people. This was necessary since there was no well fully developed traffic network. To school, wedding or also burial with the small boat. With the turn of the century and the development of the tourism one uses the small boat for the Spreewald visitors now, too. An unconditional must hand punted with the wood small boat by the Spreewald, for the nature lover.

You find small boat departure places here.

This turns from the seed of the flax plant (linseed) linseed oil won. There are all sorts of recipes in the Spreewald kitchens with linseed oil. Among other things jacket potato, linseed oil and quark or Spreewald cucumber salad are included. Linseed oil is part of the valuable vegetable oils, is very healthy and beneficial. But the yellow oil is not used its use in the kitchen but only either as a remedy in the natural medicine. So linseed oil hoarseness, stimulus cough and blockage soothes warm.

Gnats can develop into right plague spirits. The gnat has to increase excellent bases, itself in the Spreewald region. But this is and in other regions very weather and year time-dependently. Every man feels differently. Around this in this place a tip: Gnat spray or cream as a precaution into the luggage!

An old country saying means: A great gnat plague announces a good oatmeal level, the gnats fail to appear, oats and grasses get scarce. In addition, the gnat serves the frog as a food. And where the frog sits in the Spreewald, the stork is not far either.

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