Tally-ho

Halali is both greeting and hunting call of the hunter language as well as real hunting traditions. It comes from the deer and Parforcejagd the Middle Ages. When hunting horn signal differentiates between Halali and the Great Halali. The Halali also indicates the end of a riding hunting.

Customs, expiration

Today's the end of the Halali represents the ritualized end of the hunt and is different depending on the local handling and tradition. Most processes have in common that gather after hunting hounds, the pack leader and rider at Halali Square. There is or Curée (Fr. la curée, the prey ') is prepared for the pack of dogs, usually cattle rumen. While, before or after the Curée is released for the dogs as their symbolic content of the prey, call the rider Halali, also the hunting horn is blown to signal. Locally there is also the custom already at the end of the last train, so the last leg of the hunt ride to sing the Halali.

At the funerals of a (mostly active ) Hunter the Halali is usually blown at the grave.

Word Meaning and Origin

According to Horst Pelletier Halali not mean just in French ha là li so ha, since it lies ( the deer ), but either a short, meaningful free call to the dogs, to cheer, or derived from hal à luy - hal à luy, that is, Hetz on it (the deer ) - Hetz after him! .