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Slovene quintain

Also known as Štehvanje

Slovene quintain: photograph by Michael Gäbler
Photo: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Costumed riders on horseback strike a hanging barrel with bats in a village festival tournament.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Slovenia.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Mediterranean.

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