How the Swiss Celebrate Spring and Dangerous Dwarfs.

 

Hint: Do you want to burn a snowman...

     Unlike most people, I hate Olaf from Frozen, and if I did try to burn a snowman people would think I was a loopy person. However, in Switzerland and Austria, they have a whole tradition of burning and blowing up this monstrosity by Disney in a celebration on the third of April called Sechselauten which means the ringing of the bells at six-o-clock. It all starts right in the town square of Zurich where after a parade they burn a snowman made out of straw barrels, sticks, and dress him up to the nines and call him the Boogg which is short for boogyman. Superstition says that the quicker the Boogg burns the faster spring will come. 

This means Switzerland is a great place to hate Frozen; however the German's, Austrian's, and Swiss do have a universal hatred of Disney. This is because in Germany they have laws on over-marketing to children, one German psychologist of the Frankfurt am Main school of psychology called Walt Disney the devil. German's were inventors of the first garden gnome which is not a gnome but a dwarf or group of dwarfs called Kobalts who work alongside humans if you are nice to them. 

 

The reason why their hats are red is that they not only help humans but also fought alongside them dyeing their hats red with the blood of their victims. Even my Oma and Opa's village of Utzing has dwarf folklore; tourists like to visit a cave that according to the village lore the dwarfs lived in and tried to mine in with no luck at all just dirt until the people of the village came and were appalled by their condition. So they cleaned them all up and gave them jobs in the village and some say the cave now has invisible treasures that only dwarfs can see but we cannot. This is because like in the Orignal Grimms tales and now even in Tolkien's books dwarfs have magic and craft magic; this dates back to Norse mythos where dwarfs made things like...

• Skidblaner: A ship for the gods that favored a good wind and fit into your pocket 
• Gullinbrusti: A golden florescent boar that could run faster than any horse
• Daupnir: A ring that could multiply its's self
• Thor's Hammer
• Odin's Spear
• and Hair for Siff because of a bad prank by Loki...

 
  

It's nothing like the Marvel Version that we all know and love, which is now owned by Disney along with Star Wars...and Disney's Snow White is nothing like the original Grimms Version. Where the Queen not only wants to eat her heart but her liver! 

Also in the Grimms version, Sneewittchen gets poisoned three times and is very cautious about the poisoned apple to the point of cutting the apple to see what is inside and then eats it. Also, the prince only comes to her grave while on a hunting trip which means...he's drunk and plans to steal from the dwarfs until he realizes he's crashing a funeral. However, it's no kiss that wakes her up but a Heimlich maneuver from one of his servants who got tired of carrying a coffin. Then once she's finally saved by her prince...they have a surprise for the queen on their wedding day and it's not a red blender or a fruitcake. It's a red hot pair of iron shoes straight from the furnace for her to wear; a gift she will die for and die from.