LL-L: "Customs" LOWLANDS-L, 24.JUL.2001 (02) [D/E]

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From: Gustaaf Van Moorsel <gvanmoor at aoc.nrao.edu>
Subject: LL-L: "Customs" LOWLANDS-L, 23.JUL.2001 (02) [E]

I remember 'dauwtrappen' from my early youth in the mid-fifties
in the eastern Netherlands (Veluwezoom/Achterhoek).  One day per
year (I believe Hemelvaart - Ascension) people would get up at
some ungodly hour (like 4 in the morning) and walk for several
hours.  I am pretty sure there was no health connection (one day
per year wouldn't help very much).  I wouldn't be surprised if
this custom dates to way back in time.

I haven't noticed this habit anywhere else in the Netherlands,
and don't know if it even exists at all anymore.

Gustaaf

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Customs

Bedankt, Gustaaf.  Het lijkt me een lekker gebruik, alhoewel het online als
"ouderwets" (= niet "cool"?) beschreven word.

Lowlanders, can you think of any old customs elsewhere that seems to be
related to this _Dauwtrappen_ in the Eastern Netherlands?

In Northern Germany it is traditional for men to go on hikes or other types of
daytrips (often accompanied by carousing and other types of wild behavior) on
Ascension Day, which is also the local Fathers' Day and may go back to some
pre-Christian springtime rite.  This tends to start before sunrise (so many
participants are pretty drunk by breakfast time).  I wonder if there is a
cultural connection with the apparently more sedate Netherlandic custom of
_Dauwtrappen_ on Ascension Day.  (You can find out more about the North German
custom in Ms. Kramer-Freudenthal's Low Saxon (Low German) story _Himmelfohrt_,
with my English translation, at
<http://www.geocities.com/sassisch/rhahn/kramer/himmelfohrt.html>.)

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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