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Little earthenware whistles shaped like birds and known as peckvillercher are a special feature of the event.

[1] Nospelt used to be a village of potters who would make the little birds from the small amounts of clay left over at the end of the day.

[1] The origins of the festival are not too clear but there may be a connection with the Biblical reference to a potter in the Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 18.

Today's Nospelt festival only goes back to 1957 when the potters once again began making the whistles, with a new design each year.

The celebrations in Luxembourg's old town were revived in 1937 by Jean Peters, a ceramic artist from Reckental, who started making whistles from the red clay of Nospelt.