Stuffo
Stuffo is the name of an alleged Germanic deity from the hagiography of Boniface. After this had precipitated the Donareiche in Geismar, he should be drawn into the resin, where he destroyed an "oracle " image of God stuffo on the mountain stages. At the moment of destruction of the portrait should be moved under steam and flames in a hole, which is still called Stuffels hole. In a church in the calibration field, in Küllstedt, there is a portrait from 1756, is the Boniface, as he pushes stuffo of a wooden base.
The German romanticists of the 18th and 19th century wanted to stuffo recognize a Drinking divinity and derived its name from the word Stuvo or Stauf for a particular cup now and wanted to see more evidence of a Germanic stuffo cult in family and place names such as Stauffenberg. Since, however, represent the saint's legend, and highly uncertain Pseudoetymologien the only evidence for the existence of such a God, today the actual existence of a god named stuffo is disputed by most researchers and pointed very into the realm of legend.
Stuffo as a form of folklore
In the three communities Bailiwick Oberdorla, Niederdorla and Langula is the " stuffo " the name of the local variant of the foliage man and part of the local Pentecost. So a child is placed under a garment similar, about three feet high funnel made of fir branches and driven on a car by that particular village, the festival participants present " stuffo pfeif times " call, whereupon " stuffo " shall blow the whistle to prove that someone actually is within the branches. A character named stuffo also found in the Frisian legend of the " fire - Pütz " mention, apparently she was but borrowed here from Boniface Sage.