The unlearned pupil, indicated by the gugel with donkeys and bells, and by a fly-whisker in his hand, gugel was a type of hood with a trailing point, popularly worn in medieval Germany, Der ungelehrige Schueler, angedeutet durch die Gugel mit Eselsohren und Schellen und durch einen Fliegenwedel in der Hand, Holzschnitt aus Petrarca, Trostspiegel, 1539, digital improved reproduction of a woodcut, published in the 19th century