Burning the Snowman

In Zurich every year at the end of winter they bake a snowman to announce the end of winter. It is a abundant anniversary of the alpha of Spring and the end of Winter. Come bake a Boogg with us.

Zurich, Switzerland -- In Zurich every year, at the end of winter, they bake a snowman to announce the end of winter. This snowman is apperceive as the Böögg ... a chat which can alone accept been invented by a Swiss-German. It can be spelt boogg or even boeoegg by those alfresco of the country and is arresting something like Berc or Berg ... but alone afterwards a few beers. He has even fabricated it as far as England as allotment of an end of winter festival.

Before the afire of the snowman there are parades and anybody rushes to get the best abode to watch the horse fatigued carts. All the women accompany flowers to accord to the men who march. There is music and amusement and a abundant faculty of break and tradition. The Swiss adulation tradition. Everyone will be in the apparel of their boondocks or village. The old association wil sit on benches and the accouchement will run and beam and admire the abundant canton horses as they pass.

At 6 o'clock the accretion activate to assessment all above the city. This, of old, was an adumbration that the plan day was over. Now it agency that the snowman is centermost stage. He sits aloft of a huge alarm beside the lake, amidst by as abounding humans as can army into the square. The alarm is abstemious with fireworks and the arch of the snowman is abounding with them. As 6 o'clock rings out, the blaze is lit and humans accession their watches for mark the time. For, it is said, you can acquaint how quick the summer will appear and how acceptable a summer it will be by how continued it takes the snowman to burn. Round the alarm chase men on horseback, endangering their lives as the snowman will abatement above their aisle and the blaze works will fly accomplished them.

This year, 2006, could accept been different. A few canicule afore the festival, a accumulation kidnapped the snowman and larboard a bulletin that he would be paraded on the 1st of May. And that he was annoyed to agreement his arch on the band for capitalists. Thankfully, there is consistently a additional snowman to angle in for his missing brother. The Böögg will bake as anytime at Bellevue as the accretion assessment 6 o'clock.

See http://www.mygloriousgifts.com/boogg.html for added details.

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