Ring whip on Gömörpéterwall

The whip was primarily a tool for shepherds, but it was also often found among ordinary people, and in the hands of children, seeing that it could be used to whip loudly, it attracted children's passion! ; We know several types of whip whipping, their names were given primarily by the type of shepherd who used them. There was no particular rule for this, but there was an example where the old shepherd listed them. Such was the csikós, kanász goulyás-csordás. Shepherds did not particularly need a whip, their tool of work was the hooked stick, regardless of this, almost everyone could handle the whip. ; The game of skill lay in who could whip the biggest with the whip, and those who turned it in their hands more often could even hit it accurately, not just make it sound! ; ; Memory from Gömörpéterfala: ; ; “I knew back then, when I was a child. Back then, out in the wilderness, we had everything like that. There were real outlaws there. ; If a shepherd didn’t have a whip, then he wasn’t a shepherd, or if he couldn’t hit it, then he wasn’t a shepherd! ; Sometimes, some sticks were set up, and we tried to hit them, but like children. Well, that was the game for us in the wilderness.” ; (István Ádám – Barna Bodajszi) ; ; “We wove the whip out of hemp, eight-pronged. We rode the oxen, and when the oxen were free, we took them to the pasture. I could hit the oxen accurately. I learned how to make it from my grandfather. ; It was used by shepherds who would come to the house to sing. They used it.” ; (Géza Illés)