Marotte

Quirk is the French diminutive of the name Marie and the name for a mounted on a stick puppet when puppet theater. In a figurative sense was of a quirk quirk or strange habit.

In the visual arts, the fad is an attribute of momos, the personification of blame and slander.

Etymology

Fad for " strange habit, whimsical inclination, whim " was borrowed in the second half of the 18th century by French marotte. This proven first for the 15th century French noun belongs as minifying Suffixbildung (like French puppet, see puppet, and Old French mariole " small picture of Mary, Holy Picture" ) to the French name Marie (Latin Maria), from which in the 17th century of female first name has emerged fad. The observable in the French language meaning change led by " picture of Mary, holy figure " over " doll, puppet " to one consisting of a rod with dolls head " bauble " in the 16th century, continue to " fool's cap " and finally in the 17th century " foolish idea, folly, strange hobby ".

Puppet

The staff - the most even as axis around which you can rotate the doll is used - is mounted so that the doll can carry with him ( usually from below ). In the late Middle Ages the jester was a fad before it. Often you can see remnants of it today at the carnival or Shrovetide. Often, the guild master of a fool guild carries a small image of the mask or the whole figure in his profession on a stick, for example the cuckoo in the " Litzelstetter cuckoos " at parades in front of them.

Nowadays a design is referred to in the puppet theater with fad in the first place, in which the shoulder is shaped as a bow or half an egg, with center hole, whose diameter is slightly larger than the holding bar of the figure. The shoulder is on both sides with a leather strap or the like. attached to the staff or through a drilled hole, some play for mobility is allowed. Outside are one-, two - or three-pronged arms are also movable, fixed by straps or thongs on the shoulder. When the doll slightly back and herdreht, arms dangle quite natural. Consequently, the character is referred to as dangling figure. More bars for hands and other parts of the doll are also possible, but lead already on the principle of the stick figure.