The Ubersitz is a traditional custom in Hasli

Haslital

The Hasli region is a historical Landvogtei or Talschaft in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, bordering on the cantons of Obwalden, Uri and Wallis...

, Bernese Oberland

Bernese Oberland

The Bernese Oberland is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the southern end of the canton: The area around Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and the valleys of the Bernese Alps .The flag of the Bernese Oberland consists of a black eagle in a gold field The Bernese Oberland (Bernese...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. On Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 day, at nightfall, schoolboys begin with Treichlen, walking through the villages in small troops, sounding giant cow-bells. The following nights, the boys are joined, and later replaced, by adult men. The Trychling culminates on 30 December (or the last workday before that date), with the Ubersitz in Meiringen

Meiringen

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. On this day, the Treichler are carrying frightening masks (except for the people of Unterbach

Unterbach

Unterbach may refer to:* Düsseldorf-Unterbach, an urban borough of Düsseldorf* A Hamlet in St. Martin in Passeier* A Swiss Air Force airbase in MeiringenAlso* Unterbäch, a municipality in the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland....

 and Hasliberg

Hasliberg

Hasliberg is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-History:Hasliberg is first mentioned in 1358 as Hasle an dem berge. After 1834 it was known as Gem Hasleberg. Since 1923 the spelling has been Hasliberg.-Geography:Hasliberg has...

 who remain unmasked) The people of Willigen an Husen are accompanied by a "Huttefroueli" (an effigy of an old woman) and a "Schnabelgeiss" (a tall monster with goat's horns and a beak), while the people of Meiringen have just a "Huttefroueli", and those of Innertkirchen

Innertkirchen

Innertkirchen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.Its coat of arms depicts an eagle wearing an imperial crown.-History:...

just a "Schnabelgeiss".