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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Sounds like something you’d do at Walpurgisnacht. I remember women actually carrying scissors to cut off men’s … neckties or other parts of clothing.

I miss the mischief.

The way you describe it, Southern Germany or Austria or Switzerland?

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Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Southwestern Germany, yep :) We called it Hexennacht, Witches’ Night, which is of course the same as Walpurgisnacht. The necktie cutting as I know it is a Karneval thing, specifically the Thursday before Karneval, called Weiberfasnacht (“Wives’/women’s carnival”). Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were heathens somewhere cutting neckties on some other day ;D

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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  The necktie cutting as I know it is a Karneval thing, specifically the Thursday before Karneval, called Weiberfasnacht (“Wives’/women’s carnival”).
  
  Shit, you’re right (same in Cologne). But I seem to remember something similar from Walpurgisnacht; women being in control, somewhat.
  
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