Friday, September 12, 2008

Templar Knights

There's a picture of the controversial German artist Otto Lohmüller with his "Templar Knights" Scout troop here. They look fairly traditional, although if I were being bitchy cynical I might suggest that this could be for aesthetic reasons rather than to do with actual traditional Scouting.

Lohmüller has also written - not to mention illustrated - a number Scouting novels, similar apparently to the French children's books illustrated by Pierre Joubert. One is actually listed on the Riaumont website here. On the cover of one of them, interestingly, he actually uses a cross very similar to the Scouts of Europe cross (a not, despite their name, the Cross of Jerusalem ☩ normally used by the Riaumont and Doran Scouts in France other Catholic Scouts in the same tradition).

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