!!!Dreschen

Threshing, agricultural process to separate grain from the ears or 
pulse from the pods. The time-consuming and strenuous threshing by 
hand with a flail - accompanied by various customs and traditions such 
as special verses (to ensure a uniform work rhythm), meals and dances 
(when the threshing was finished,  Maschkerer) - was gradually 
replaced in Austria by hand-operated, horse-operated and 
engine-powered threshing machines from the end of the 19%%sup th/%  
century on. Largely replaced by the combine harvester since the 1950s.

!Literature
R. Wolfram, Dreschen - Austreten durch Tiere, in: Oesterr. 
Volkskundeatlas, 6%%sup th/%  instalment, 1979; O. Bockhorn, Dreschen 
- Formen des Dreschflegels, idem; H. Fielhauer, Maskenbraeuche nach 
dem Drusch, in: H. Fielhauer, Volkskunde als demokratische 
Kulturgeschichtsschreibung, 1987; W. Reichert, Geschichte der 
Bauernarbeit, without date.


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