Fulehung Monument

According to tradition, the "Fulehung" was the court jester of Charles the Bold. The jester is said to have mocked the "slow Bernese” and the "fule Tunerhüng" (lazy Thuners) and fell into the hand of the men of Thun at the Battle of Murten in 1476. It is said that they then chased him through the streets of Thun until he collapsed and the people if Thun thereby had their revenge for his insult.

Today, the "Fulehung" is inseparable from the Ausschiesset. On Ausschiesset day, he appears early in the morning and is chased through the narrows streets of the city by the masses of people.
He wears a devil's mask, and carries a "Söiblattere" (pig’s bladder) and a "Schyt" (a type of bat) and even hits out with them at his most insolent persecutors