The ceremony of “Carrying out Death” presents much the same features as “Burying the Carnival;” except that the figure of Death is oftener drowned or burned than buried, and that the carrying out of Death is generally followed by a ceremony, or at least accompanied by a profession, of bringing in Summer, Spring, or Life. Thus, in some villages of Thüringen on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the children used to carry a puppet of birchen twigs through the village, and then threw it into a pool, while they sang, “We carry the old Death out behind the herdsman’s old house; we have got Summer, and Kroden’s(?) power is destroyed.”(849) In one village of Thüringen (Dobschwitz near Gera), the ceremony of “Driving out Death” is still annually observed on the 1st of March. The young people make up a figure of straw or the like materials, dress it in old clothes which they have begged from the houses in the village, and carry it out and throw it into the river. On returning to the village they announce the fact to the people, and receive eggs and other victuals as a reward. In other villages of Thüringen, in which the population was originally Slavonic, the carrying out of the puppet is accompanied with the singing of a song, which begins, “Now we carry Death out of the village and Spring into the village.”(850) In Bohemia the children go out with a straw-man, representing Death, to the end of the village, where they burn it, singing— “Now carry we Death out of the village, The new Summer into the village, Welcome dear Summer, Green little corn!”(851) At Tabor (Bohemia) the figure of Death is carried out of the town and flung from a high rock into the water, while they sing— “Death swims on the water, Summer will soon be here, We carried Death away for you, We brought the Summer. And do thou, O holy Marketa, Give us a good year For wheat and for rye.”(852) In other parts of Bohemia they carry Death to the end of the village, singing— “We carry Death out of the village, And the New Year into the village. Dear Spring, we bid you welcome, Green grass, we bid you welcome.” Behind the village they erect a pyre, on which they burn the straw figure, reviling and scoffing at it the while. Then they return, singing— “We have carried away Death, And brought Life back. He has taken up his quarters in the village, Therefore sing joyous songs.”(853) At Nürnberg, girls of seven to eighteen years of age, dressed in their best, carry through the streets a little open coffin in which is a doll, hidden under a shroud. Others carry a beech branch, with an apple fastened to it for a head, in an open box. They sing, “We carry Death into the water, it is well,” or, “We carry Death into the water, carry him in and out again.”(854)