Drolleries

As buffoonery (French: drôle, funny / weird / funny ) is referred to in medieval art, the coarse - funny, grotesquely exaggerated representation of people, mythical creatures and animals. Drolleries found both in manuscript illumination, as well as in the plastic arts. On the paper were drolleries thus medieval cartoons. The now famous drolleries found on Gothic churches where they serve mostly as a gargoyle on the edge of the roof.

The term buffoonery is sometimes also used for literary grotesque forms ( nonsense poems, Fatrasien etc.).

As a German name for these figures, there are Blecker ( that is those who expose something, especially her rump ) and Zanner (those who bare their teeth or grimace ).