The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them

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Whoever comes into the Zillerthal is sure to visit it a second time.

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In the Vintschgau (see infra) the leading cow has the title of Proglerin, from the dialectic word proglen, to carry one’s head high. She wears also the most resounding bell.

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‘Kaspar my name: from the East I came: I came thence with great speed: five thousand miles in fourteen days: Melchior, step in.’ Zingerle gives a version of the whole set of rimes.

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See Sitten Bräuche u. Meinungen des Tiroler Volks, p. 81.