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Humpolec city, Czech Republic

Pelhrimov okres, Vysocina region

by Ivan Sache, 17 Dec 2000
adopted 15 Jul 1993

Humpolec town flag
Humpolec coat of arms

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Humpolec town flag

Image after Petr Exner's Vexilologický Lexikon prapory obcí Čr (1991-1994) - Humpolec, Pelhrimov district, Vysocina region - adopted 15 Jul 1993.
The flag of Humpolec has two equal horizontal stripes - white over blue, and a red canton (broad as the white strip and square shaped) with two yellow forks crossed.
Aleš Křižan, 13 Dec 2000

Humpolec coat of arms

image from this website.

The coat of arms is gules two forks in saltire (arms of noble family Leskovec z Leskovce/ Leskovec of Leskovec) or between in chief an escutcheon per fess sable, argent and gules (Arms of noble family Trcka z Lípy / Trcka of Lipa) and in base an arrow argent in pale, with piece of cloth argent instead feathers , known as "Zavinutá strela" ("Folded dart") in Czech and as "Odrowaz" in Polish "Rub off the beard!". This was the Family Coat of Arms of the Lords z Dubé (of Dubá). There's a Legend about the Odrowaz, known in our country and adopted by the Dubá Family too. The Legend says that a small and weak knight has beaten the big and strong one, cut him the beard and picked it on his arrow as a trophy.
Aleš Křižan, 13 Dec 2000

Anthropo-ethnologists would surely call that 'ritualized emasculation' or 'toning down of a bloody legend'. Mythologists would identify ancient common Indo-European myths (e.g. Zeus and Cronos, Absalom, Samson and Dalila etc.).
In a lighter way, there is a silly game in France in which two peoples sit in front of each other very closely, look into each other's eyes and grasp each other's chin with the hand when singing a stoopid song : "I grasp you - You grasp me - By the goatee (beard) - The first of both of us - Who laugh - Shall receive a little tap". The first competitor who laughs is the luser. I always lose the game :-)
Ivan Sache, 17 Dec 2000