Basket
The basket denotes woven containment and harvest fertility, cradling the infant god or hero and gathering the scattered limbs of the dismembered one.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Tools and Other Objects
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Germanic folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Krampus bears Germanic folklore
why
He carries bundles of birch branches (Ruten) for switching naughty children and often totes a woven basket or washtub strapped to his back for hauling away the very worst offenders.