One of my coworkers sadly lost her brother, and in an oversight they
buried him while he was still wearing a silver pendant that she wanted
to keep as a memorial of him. She really wants to find another one
like it, but I've exhausted my research capability and come up blank.
The silver pendant was one of those little guys where you pull the
string and his arms and legs flail out - she thinks it's called a
"humpelmann" (sp?) in German. Since I don't know exactly what it's
called (I've tried "jumping man," "dancing man," "that thing where you
pull the string and the dude's legs flail out"), regular
google/froogle/ask jeeves searches have not been helpful. Any ideas?

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 03 Dec 2003 17:03 PST

Dear ericbop,

Does the item look like this?
http://i14.ebayimg.com/01/i/00/ee/3b/9f_1.JPG

Regards,
Scriptor

I have not been able to find a pendant or charm of this type, but it
might help to know that one name for this kind of toy is "Jumping
Jack":

http://www.oldworldnutcrackers.com/jumping-jacks.html

...and the German word is "Hampelmann". Maybe this helps at least a little bit.

Regards,
Scriptor