# Carnivale In The Tyrol: Why The Weird masks?

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**Created:** [January 26, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivale-in-the-tyrol-why-the-weird-masks/286675 "2005-01-26T01:10:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivale-in-the-tyrol-why-the-weird-masks/286675/1 "2005-01-26T01:10:54Z")

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Carnivale starts next week…and I’m familiar with it in Brazil (in Rio its wild). But as it is practiced in the Austrian Tyrol (Fasching), the people wera really grotesque masks…what is the origin of this?  
I’ll post some pictures soon…