(the last Saturday of the Carnival Season)
a group of local men go from house to house, wherever there lives an unmarried woman, and "sell" her a piece of a log, and play some music and sing.
Each woman, so graced, has to give a monetary contribution and it is suggested that she will find the right man and be married shortly.
No statistics exist regarding the success of this custom.
A number of logs are drawn by a horse.
A short piece ( about 30cm long ) is cut from the log
and "sold" to this unmarried woman.
Well known and prominent male citizens participate
in this quaint custom, called "Blochziagn"
(Carinthian Dialect for "pulling the log.")
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