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Christmas Eve in Moravia

Christmas Eve in Moravian Záhoří

Around Lipník a short man dressed half as a man and half as a woman, stuffed himself with straw, put a sieve on his head and walked the village with a bull-whip, striking every youngster he met “so they would grow better than he and not be lazy”. He was called the caputa.

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Sources

  1. F. Bartoš, Moravský lid (1892), p. 14