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Elwetritsche Observation Platform

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    July 8, 2019

    In several Palatine communities tourists are offered as a whimsical pastime the purchase of a Elwetritschen hunting license. Locals, on the other hand, have obviously been "cradled" in the hunting permit. The Elwetritschenjagd is given as a high art, because the beings are considered very shy. The cheapest hunting season are dark New Moon nights. In a variant of the hunt, the catcher needs a sack, an oil lamp and a truncheon. Drivers try to screech loudly "Tritsch, tritsch" calls and blows against trees or Weinbergspfähle the Elwetritschen, so they flee into the bag of the catcher. In another variant of the hunt, you take a sack that has an opening at both ends. The bag is set up with the help of a branch to a kind of hose. At the rear opening of the bag, the lamp is placed. Now it is necessary to wait until an Elvetrite, attracted by the light, enters the sack through the front opening; then the bag is closed. However, the Elwetritsche usually escapes through the second opening.

    In order to protect themselves from attacks by the Elwetritschen, the hunters drink before and during the hunt amply alcohol, whose smell allegedly keeps the Elwetritschen at a distance. The often unsuspecting catcher and Jagdscheinaspirant is occasionally left secretly in the open, until he finally finds himself frozen - and without hunting booty - home. Then there is the obligatory feast and matching drinks to warm up, for example, wine or fruit brandies. In a winery in the Palatinate Bissersheim even a special "Elwedritsche Drobbe" (drop) was produced.

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      Location: Bellheim, Germersheim, Südpfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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