L'Hom Strom

The Hom Strom ; meaning "the Straw-Man") is a pre-Christian tradition carried out yearly on the first Saturday of February in Scuol, the main inhabited center of the Lower Engadin, Graubünden, Switzerland.

This tradition takes place every first Saturday of February. In the morning young people from the village gather a whole bunch of straw taken from local farms in order to build a big straw man in the town square. In days gone by the four areas of town would each build their own Hom Strom and guard it against kids form the other areas of town in order to avoid that the latter would set their Hom Strom on fire before the beginning of the main event.

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