{"id":6431,"date":"2018-04-16T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:22:27","slug":"witch-mask-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/witch-mask-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch mask from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 This isn’t a mystery mask, but I thought it was a nice find for $27. It’s a German Hexe mask, I believe from Offenburg. The mask itself is about 13″H and it has an attached scarf, which drapes over a wire frame that’s attached to the mask.\u00a0 Dan, 1341<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the thirties the first witches appeared in the organized Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet. They were the Offenburg witches, who were officially founded on Epiphany in 1936. Unlike the rather deliberate fool, the witch is a figure with whom one can do a lot. Witches are free, they can climb, can make Radau, build pyramids and annoy the spectators. This is also noticeable in the newer guilds when they start a group of witches. People come in droves and they are becoming very popular. Maybe too much so. How do you react?\u00a0 Dan, 1341<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have never seen a Fasnacht celebration so I can’t comment on whether more witches are needed. But I can tell your mask was a good deal. You got a fine piece of authentic folk art for a bargain price.\u00a0 A\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 This isn’t a mystery mask, but I thought it was a nice find for $27. It’s a German Hexe mask, I believe from Offenburg. The mask itself is about 13″H and it has an attached scarf, which drapes over a wire frame that’s attached to the mask.\u00a0 Dan, 1341 At the beginning of the thirties the first witches appeared in the organized Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet. They were the Offenburg witches, who were officially founded on Epiphany in 1936. Unlike the rather deliberate fool, the witch is a figure with whom one can do a lot. Witches are free, they can climb, can make Radau, build pyramids and annoy the spectators. This is also noticeable in the newer guilds when they start a group of witches. People come in droves and they are becoming very popular. Maybe too much so. How do you react?\u00a0 Dan, 1341 A:\u00a0 I have never seen a Fasnacht celebration so I can’t comment on whether more witches are needed. But I can tell your mask was a good deal. You got a fine piece of authentic folk art for a bargain price.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}