Samson was an Israelite judge who killed 1000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone - as written in the Old Testament, among others.

In connection with local customs, the following can be said in broad outline:
It is probable that this custom took root in Lungau from neighboring Bavaria in 1623 through immigrant Capuchins.

Therefore, Samson was still called "Kornvater" in the previous century. At that time the Samson custom was introduced in several places of the Lungau. Mostly this giant figure was carried along in processions to emphasize the request - to be spared by bad weather and to have a good harvest.
The accounts of the Corpus Christi brotherhood in Tamswege prove that in 1746 a Samson was sold to Murau for 24 FL.

Murau therefore already had its Samson more than 200 years ago. It was also carried in processions until Emperor Joseph II banned such church festivities in 1786. The Samson had thus disappeared from the Murau townscape.

In 1966, after a great deal of personal effort, Ernst Gasteiger revived the Samson of Murau. On October 1, 1966 the newly created giant danced for the first time on the occasion of the reception of the local poet Paula Grogger.

In 1968 he was solemnly consecrated by the Capuchin Father Gallus and since then he moves out with the Murau Civic Guard.

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