“Hujum! Wela chnunt und cheart mi um!” is the challenge to a duel. It is especially directed at the “Stubeti boys” who do not want to reveal their identity on the street.

A man from Grabsberg heard this call from a barn on his way home. He went there and noticed a suspicious boy under the “porch”, who was masked and whom he wanted to touch immediately. But he blew at him and disappeared.

In the morning, the man from Grabsberg had a swollen head as big as a milking bucket. After a few days, the young man was a corpse.

Heinrich Hilty

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Hujum!

“Hujum! Wela chnunt und cheart mi um!” lautet die Herausforderung zum Zweikampf. Er gilt namentlich den “Stubeti-Buben”, die sich auf der Strasse nicht zu erkennen geben wollen.

Ein Grabserberger hörte auf dem Heimweg diesen Ruf von einer Scheune her. Er ging hin und bemerkte unter der “Vordiele” einen verdächtigen Burschen, der vermummt war und den er auch gleich anfassen wollte. Aber dieser blies ihn an und verschwand. Am Morgen hatte der Grabserberger einen geschwollenen Kopf, der so gross war wie ein Melkeimer. Nach wenigen Tagen war der junge Mann eine Leiche.
Heinrich Hilty.

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Editors notes:

• I’m really not sure what the challenge translates to.
• “Stubeti” according to this lexicon, is also known as a “Kilting”:

“The advertising behavior of young men, especially in rural regions, which is regulated by custom, according to which they visit marriageable girls at home at night individually or in groups, be it by entering their rooms or being together in the room. Admission was often requested with a disguised voice, well-arranged speeches or special kilt sayings. Nocturnal rivalry fights were part of the typical appearance.”