!!!Schemenlaufen

Schemenlaufen, a custom once widespread in Tirol where  Fasching 
parade participants wear wild ("schiache", dialect for 
"ugly") or attractive ("schoene") masks 
(" Schemen"). Today Schemenlaufen is practised in Imst, 
which is well known for this custom. Schemenlaufen parades are usually 
held on the Sunday before "Unsinniger Donnerstag" 
("Foolish Thursday", the last Thursday of carnival) every 
four years. The custom involves masked men and boys dressed up as 
"Kuebele-Majen", "Sackner", "Roller", 
"Scheller" etc. who dance, run and jump through the town.

!Literature
A. Doerrer, Tiroler Fasnacht, 1949; F. Grieshofer, 
Faschingsbrauchtum, in: Oesterr. Volkskundeatlas, 5%%sup th/% 
 instalment, 1974.


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