Translation of "Strohpuppe" in English

Nowadays children enjoy the sweets that are thrown out into the street from all the houses as a straw doll is borne ahead of them out of the town and then burnt.

He continued in British films during the 1960s, portraying stereotypical roles, such as a butler in the film "Woman of Straw" (1964), and in other films, such as "East of Sudan" (1964), "Khartoum" (1966) and "The Last Safari" (1967).

So I made a replica of you out of straw and then I put my lab coat on it with your memo in the pocket, then invited the neighbourhood kids to light it on fire and whack it with sticks.

Traditionally, the kermis is “buried” on the following Thursday: a straw doll is burnt at the kermis tree after the Kermis Lads’ mourning procession.

He continued in British films during the 1960s, portraying stereotypical roles, such as a butler in the film Woman of Straw (1964), and in other films, such as East of Sudan (1964), Khartoum (1966) and The Last Safari (1967).

In La Alberca also existed the tradition of making a straw doll representing Judas Iscariot and was hanged from the top of the bell tower and burnt with the noble stone figure of the pig of San Antón showing him the magical virtues of fire purification, with the “marranos”, “gurrinos”, pigs and a thousand more names.

Many Latin American countries have the same tradition such as in Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay and Brazil, where the straw doll is typically hanged on Good Friday and burned on Easter Sunday.

Even working with his Polish connections, Usovsky tries to organize for Malofeyev a meeting in Brussels, where Polish activists are supposed burn the effigy of the Montenegrin Prime Minister Djukanovic:

She was presented as an effigy made of straw clothed in womens dress. Young girls carried her singing towards a stream.

On Maslenitsa you could taste the most delicious pancakes with various fillings, ride a toboggan on sleds, and on the last day of Maslenitsa week a straw dummy was burned - so was the victory of spring over the boring winter.

Into the pockets of the straw puppet all children and staff members put papers mentioning the difficult and bad events of the old year.

There is no record as to its origin, although it most probably comes from an ancient custom where they marched a straw doll around the streets of Ciutadella, which they then burnt in the Plaça des Born.

The carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday with the hanging of the puppet known as Mesopust, who is held guilty for all the troubles of the previous year.

Together they went with the puppet to the old woman’s house, then in front of her house they sawed the puppet in half, using a big two-person saw, pretending all the while to cry at her death.

Another tradition involves the making of a straw puppet known as the Pust - if it gets stolen before being presented to the public, there will be no carnival for the next seven years.

Thus, since the middle age people come together on this day (the 5th of January) to drink a glass of vin brulé (hot wine) and a piece of stollen and to watch the vecia (“the old hag” who is responsible for all the mischief of the last year) – a puppet made out of hay placed on top of a bonfire that is up to 8-10 meters high – burn.

In Transylvania a straw-puppet was buried, symbolizing the death and burial of the year passed.

"Suppose that an archer or archer's apprentice were to practice on a straw man or mound of clay, so that after a while he would become able to shoot long distances, to fire accurate shots in rapid succession, and to pierce great masses.

At that point the elite will put a new puppet in the ceremonial seat of power and build him up as the savior, only to tear them down again.

"Suppose that an archer or archer's apprentice were to practice on a straw man or mound of clay, so that after a while he would become able to shoot long distances, to fire accurate shots in rapid succession, and to pierce great masses. In the same way, there is the case where a monk... enters & remains in the dimension of the infinitude of space.