20:04 Sep 18, 2010 

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16:20 Sep 18, 2010 

Good for you :) Flogging a dead horse, I think ...

13:21 Sep 18, 2010 

... if I Google for images of wooden ratchets, I get a few pictures of "rapač".
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=wooden ratchet&oe=utf-8&rls...
P.S. Wikipedia is most definitely not to be trusted all the time, but surely can be trusted just as much as someone's blog.

07:32 Sep 18, 2010 

Not always - this is what a rattle looks like http://www.soundtravels.co.uk/p-Wooden_Football_Rattle__Doub... - if you say 'ratchet' most people imagine this: http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/04/black-decker-tri-ratchet/ . A baby's rattle is as you describe, but not in this case. Wikipedia is not always to be trusted.

22:35 Sep 17, 2010 

...for Rad, the "rattle" is a 'closed' thingie with some bits inside to make the noice. "Rapač" is not one of them.

19:32 Sep 17, 2010 

In the UK at least this is better known as a 'rattle' - used to be used at football grounds, and policemen used to have them as well. Maybe that is where Rad is getting confused. Another link here http://captainoddsocks.blogspot.com/2009/03/roznov-easter-fe... quote: 'Some of the specific Easter traditions are the burning of the winter maiden, rattle processions, chases with birch whips and the dance to wake up the new year, which is represented by a sleeping man wrapped up in a white blanket.'

17:33 Sep 17, 2010 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(instrument)
wood ratchet, gragger or noisemaker