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THE GROTESQUES
occur in the mimic dances of Athens,8 and among the court mum-
mings illustrated in the Freydal.89
The mask of the grotesque figured in the next miniature on
f. 79r (Fig. 23) is also theriomorphic, representing the head of a
pig, brownish-yellow in color, touched with gold in our MS. The
snout is open, and the red tongue is visible. The rime on f. 78V is
as follows:
Jn dieser Meiner Rauhen Wahr
Loff Jch auch Zu dem Schempart dar
Shaggy brown fur covers the body to the knees, and on the legs
are heavy, white stockings, on the hands brown gloves. In one
arm this demon clutches a yellow-haired boy, who is dressed in a
red smock and blue long hose.90 In modern custom the pig-mask
is one of the forms in which the vegetation-spirit is embodied;91
our grotesque seems to represent an early example of this tradition.
The boy in the arm of our furry-garbed masker places him among
the wild people who ran with the Ldufer, another monster to
frighten all the small boys among the spectators.92
Besides these grotesques in "rauhe Wahr," the Schembart MSS
mention the participation of a good many other guisers in the
rough costume of demons, for the years 1503, 1518, and 1539. In
the account of the "Scharmutzl" of 1507 we are told how a group
of maskers "in Rauen Klaidern" ran ahead of the Ldufer, and,
mingling their wild shouts with the noise of the drums, made room
for them among the crowd. This is the role Hans Sachs assigns
crane-mask for a Latvian festival, with diagrams and photographs, is given by
Janson, pp. 52ffi, Abb. 12, 13, 14.
88 Cf. Nicoll (Masks), p. 31, Fig. 20.
89 Cf. Freydal, Pl. 92, 203. We have already noted the crane-masks mentioned by
Naogeorgus.
90 The Schembart pig appears in MSS Nos. 2, 8 (1422), 13, 16a, 18, 28 (here
with two naked women and a fox), 29, 42, 44, 46, 47, 60, 63.
91 Cf. Frazer, VII, 298-303 ("The Corn-Spirit as Pig, Boar or Sow"); Spamer
(Handbuch), p. 93 ("Pfingstschwein").
92 An analogous figure which will bear further study as a parallel to the Schembart
pig mask is the swinish grotesque portrayed in the mural of The Trusty Servant
at Winchester College, cf. T. F. Kirby, Annals of Winchester College (London: H.
Frowde, 1892), pp. 39-41; Winchester College, by the Winchester College Archae-
ological Society (Winchester: P. & G. Wells, 1926), pp. 158-9; Ch. Hawkes,
chester College (London: Country Life Ltd., 1933), Fig. 27.
THE GROTESQUES
occur in the mimic dances of Athens,8 and among the court mum-
mings illustrated in the Freydal.89
The mask of the grotesque figured in the next miniature on
f. 79r (Fig. 23) is also theriomorphic, representing the head of a
pig, brownish-yellow in color, touched with gold in our MS. The
snout is open, and the red tongue is visible. The rime on f. 78V is
as follows:
Jn dieser Meiner Rauhen Wahr
Loff Jch auch Zu dem Schempart dar
Shaggy brown fur covers the body to the knees, and on the legs
are heavy, white stockings, on the hands brown gloves. In one
arm this demon clutches a yellow-haired boy, who is dressed in a
red smock and blue long hose.90 In modern custom the pig-mask
is one of the forms in which the vegetation-spirit is embodied;91
our grotesque seems to represent an early example of this tradition.
The boy in the arm of our furry-garbed masker places him among
the wild people who ran with the Ldufer, another monster to
frighten all the small boys among the spectators.92
Besides these grotesques in "rauhe Wahr," the Schembart MSS
mention the participation of a good many other guisers in the
rough costume of demons, for the years 1503, 1518, and 1539. In
the account of the "Scharmutzl" of 1507 we are told how a group
of maskers "in Rauen Klaidern" ran ahead of the Ldufer, and,
mingling their wild shouts with the noise of the drums, made room
for them among the crowd. This is the role Hans Sachs assigns
crane-mask for a Latvian festival, with diagrams and photographs, is given by
Janson, pp. 52ffi, Abb. 12, 13, 14.
88 Cf. Nicoll (Masks), p. 31, Fig. 20.
89 Cf. Freydal, Pl. 92, 203. We have already noted the crane-masks mentioned by
Naogeorgus.
90 The Schembart pig appears in MSS Nos. 2, 8 (1422), 13, 16a, 18, 28 (here
with two naked women and a fox), 29, 42, 44, 46, 47, 60, 63.
91 Cf. Frazer, VII, 298-303 ("The Corn-Spirit as Pig, Boar or Sow"); Spamer
(Handbuch), p. 93 ("Pfingstschwein").
92 An analogous figure which will bear further study as a parallel to the Schembart
pig mask is the swinish grotesque portrayed in the mural of The Trusty Servant
at Winchester College, cf. T. F. Kirby, Annals of Winchester College (London: H.
Frowde, 1892), pp. 39-41; Winchester College, by the Winchester College Archae-
ological Society (Winchester: P. & G. Wells, 1926), pp. 158-9; Ch. Hawkes,
chester College (London: Country Life Ltd., 1933), Fig. 27.