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M21 "Procession" medieval carnival badge

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Carnival badge, Netherlands, 1375-1425. It depicts a procession of phalluses carrying a vagina in an open porterhouse, like a queen.
Images of phalluses and vaginas were considered to ward off evil and at the same time symbols of fertility. Indecent badges may contradict stereotypes of medieval prudery and fears of "bodily sinfulness". Meanwhile, images with explicit sexual connotations are found even in churches. And badges with erotic-satirical subjects were invariably popular. One hypothesis regarding these subjects is that the images of phalluses and vulvas were needed to protect buildings from evil spirits, the evil eye and other dangers. They were not worshipped, but seen as amulets, symbols capable of bringing good luck and prosperity. According to many testimonies, in the Middle Ages the ancient notion that the phallus drives away evil and attracts good luck continued to live (hence, for example, the showing of a fig or middle finger as a guarding gesture in superstitions). In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the genitals were regularly depicted on small metal badges - badges that archaeologists find by the hundreds in the Netherlands, Northern France, and England.
From book of Jos Kolderweij, "Sieraad en devotie in middeleews vlaandreen".
Brass. Size 60 x 50 mm.

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