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Mar. 27 Medieval goose decapitation: A very old medieval tradition on many swiss countrysides wants it, that on the first sunday in november, on the sutamne market of the farmers, when the farmers had to pay to their lords the carn-and cattle-tax, farmers had a possibility to avoid paying the cattle tax: the one who succeeded in decapitating a hanging goose with a blunt sabre. Nowadays taxes are payed on a more sophisticated on more administrative way and the winner in the goose-decapitation just wins the headless goose. Photo shows with a blind sun-mask they try to get the goose down

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Administrative Avoid Blunt Decapitating Decapitation Goose Headless Lords Nowadays Payed Paying Possibility Sabre Sophisticated Succeeded Taxes Wants

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