Badge "Phallus creature with Bird"

Medieval pilgrims badge "Phallic Creature with bird".

Here you can buy a medieval pilgrimage badge in the shape of a phallic creature, which is equipped with a movable ringing bell.

This unusual medieval pilgrim badge shows a typical phallus creature and was made after a find from the Netherlands, dating from 1400 to 1450 AD. The original was made of pewter and is now in the possession of the Langbroek Collection, Van Breuningen.

Link to the historical model...

Medieval pilgrimage signs with obscene-erotic content were widespread in the late Middle Ages, especially in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium and England, and presumably served to provide general amusement at Shrovetide.

In the late Middle Ages, depictions of phallic creatures were widespread in different variations. The phallic creature on this pilgrim's badge is wearing harem pants and shoes. On top sits a pecking bird and on the underside is a small, movable bell.

The medieval phallus creature is made of high-quality bronze or in genuine silver-plated and has a pin on the back to attach it to clothing and an eyelet to wear it as an alternative pendant.

The phallic creature badge measures 6 x 3.5 cm.

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The the so-called phallus creature represents a sub-group of the profane medieval badges, to which, apart from bawdy representations of so-called phallus trees, phallus ships, especially often phallus creatures belongs, a half-humanly represented phallus, which was equipped with legs or even wings and sometimes could carry a crown or small bell.

Presumably, the people of the Middle Ages wanted to defuse sexuality somewhat with the aid of comedy with these bawdy pilgrim signs and used them as a means of promoting communication in the course of initiating sex, especially in the course of the rather debauched customs at Shrovetide.