Costumes
The teams of Star boys, aged about ten to fifteen, are dressed in long white shirts and pointed brown or white paper hats,in imitation of a well-known picture of the Biblical Magi as Babylonians Balthazar carries the star and Gaspar and Melchior are armed with wooden swords. The other characters usually do not disguise themselves but also dress in long shirts, often in brown, green or grey colours and conical hats. Joseph has got a cylindrical paper hat and a wooden timber or broad axe. King Herod wears a crowns and he and his soldiers carry wooden swords. In the crowd there may also be shepherds with long shirts and sticks and some angels with white shirts and wings.
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