The mussel shell; Concha Procellosum DIC Qua SPE, Navigat Aequor; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. Satire at the ecclesiastical stand in the 16th century. A loose-bonding company of nuns and fathers is packed in an open mussel shell. It is eaten, loving and multicated. In addition to the bagpipe, there are no real but so-called Charivari instruments - here the hair grid and the bellows - "played". In this way it is made clear that the moral norms and values of the monks are turned around here. Emblem no. 13 in emblemata saecularia, 1596 and no. 34 in the second edition of 1611.

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