Phalluses carrying a crowned vulva in procession
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 54). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: c.1375–1424 in the cited Bruges badge
Region: Bruges / Low Countries
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1375 CE to 1424 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Three penis figures carry a crowned vulva on a litter, parodying the visual language of ceremonial processions; part of mass-produced late-medieval secular badges.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
This excavated procession design belongs to a broader varied repertoire of genital-creature badges.
What remains uncertain
The sources support the broader repertoire more securely than the independent mass popularity of this exact composition. Ritual shaming, protection and carnival use are competing interpretations, not proven functions.
Candidate-index family 27: Genital creatures and altered processions on secular badges
The workbook groups records 53–54 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Selected badges c.1375–1450; linked manuscript example dated 1392
Region: Low Countries and France
Shortlist uncertainty: The broader inexpensive repertoire has stronger adoption evidence than each exact design. Do not count every subtype as a separately proven craze.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria