![]() Children participate as well in 2008, the children's goose pulling tournament in Lillo near Antwerp was won by a 14-year-old who won 390 euros and a trip to the Plopsaland theme park. Each year the village kings of the region compete with each other to become the "emperor". At the end of his "king year" the ruling king has to treat his village "subjects" to a feast of beer, drinks, cigars and bread pudding or sausages held either at his home or at a local pub. The rider who succeeds in pulling off the goose's head is "crowned" as the "king" of the village for one year and given a crown and mantle. Belgian goose pulling is accompanied by an elaborate set of customs. Since then, geese are first killed painlessly by a veterinarian ahead of the game, and wrapped in a net to conceal its shape to the audience. Goose pulling in Belgium was done with live geese until the 1920s, when this was prohibited. ![]() In 2019, dead goose pulling was also prohibited and the practice was henceforth performed with dummy geese. In 2008 the Dutch Party for Animals (PvdD) proposed that it should be banned in the last remaining village of Grevenbicht the organisers, Folk Verein Gawstrèkkers Beeg, rejected the proposal, pointing out that there was no question of cruelty to animals because the geese were already dead. Īlthough the use of live geese was banned in the 1920s, the practice still arouses some controversy. Goose pulling is attested in the Netherlands as early as the start of the 17th century the poet Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero referred to it in his 1622 poem Boerengeselschap ("Company of Peasants"), describing how a party of peasants going to a goose-pulling contest near Amsterdam end up in a brutal brawl, leading to the lesson that it is best for townspeople to stay away from peasant pleasures. Those in favour of allowing the practice to continue argue that it is a part of Basque culture, those opposed to the practice feel humaneness should take precedence over tradition. Animal rights advocates object that even killing the goose before the practice is cruel and should be criminalised. It is currently only practiced with dead geese during the Day of the Geese, part of the San Antolín festival in the Basque fishing-town of Lekeitio. ![]() When democracy returned to Spain, the use of geese was again allowed. Instead of geese, ribbons tied to sticks were used, which the riders had to insert into metal rings. Later, during the dictatorship of Franco, the use of live geese was prohibited by a new animal protection law. In El Carpio de Tajo goose pulling is practised on every July 25th to celebrate the liberation ( Reconquista) from the Arabs in 1141. The practice Laws regarding goose pulling (riding, cutting) around the world. It is referred to as ganstrekken in the Netherlands, gansrijden in Belgium and Gänsereiten in Germany. ![]() In Grevenbicht in the Netherlands, the use of dead geese was prohibited in 2019, being replaced by artificial geese. When practicing with the dead goose, it is killed prior by a veterinarian. It is still practiced today, using a dead goose or a dummy goose, in parts of Belgium as part of Shrove Tuesday and in some towns in Germany as part of the Shrove Monday celebrations. A man riding on horseback at a full gallop would attempt to grab the bird by the neck in order to pull the head off. The sport involved fastening a live goose with a well-greased head to a rope or pole that was stretched across a road. It originated in the 12th century in Spain and was spread around Europe by the Spanish Third. Goose pulling (also called gander pulling, goose riding, pulling the goose or goose neck tearing ) was a blood sport practiced in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and North America from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Blood sport Live goose pulling in 19th-century West Virginia, as depicted by Frederic Remington
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