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Ritual clowns, also known as sacred clowns, [1] are a characteristic feature of the ritual life of many traditional religions, [2] [3] [4] and they typically employ scatology and obscenities. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Ritual clowning is where comedy and satire originated; in Ancient Greece, ritual clowning, phallic processions and ritual aischrologia found ...
Ritual clowns are culturally important figures that are usually part of a formalised clown society Pages in category "Ritual clowns" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Clowns. It includes Clowns that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female clowns .
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.
Ceramic sacred clown by Kathleen Wall Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. The Pueblo clowns (sometimes called sacred clowns) are jesters or tricksters in the Pueblo religion.It is a generic term, as there are a number of these figures in the ritual practice of the Pueblo people.
Articles relating to clowns, persons who wear a unique makeup-face and flamboyant costume, performing comedy in a state of open-mindedness (by reversing folkway-norms) all while using physical comedy Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clowns .
Frenchy the Clown – character of the national lampoon comic Evil clown comics series. Fun Gus the Laughing Clown - cursed character in the cosmic/folk horror novel, "The Cursed Earth" by D.T. Neal (Nosetouch Press, 2022). The Ghost Clown – evil hypnotist clown featured in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode titled "Bedlam in the Big Top"
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