Roh-Hatz

The Roh-Hatz is a fictional tribal ritual featured in the NBC television series Grimm. It was observed in the second episode of season one, "Bears Will Be Bears".

The Roh-Hatz is an ancient rite of manhood amongst the Wesen species known as the Jagerbars. According to blutbad Eddie Monroe, it involves a lot of macho behavior and "chest-pounding". One of the instruments used in the Roh-Hatz is the Jagerbar ceremonial claw. The basic concept behind the ritual is to kidnap a normal humand and then set them free in the forest so that the jagerbar can prove his manhood by successfully hunting him down. Apparently, more than one jagerbar may participate in the ceremony at a time.

In Portland, Oregon, a woman named Diane Rabe still believed in the old cultural traditions of the Jagerbar, even though her more progressive-thinking husband Frank dismissed them. She encouraged her teenage son Barry and his two friends T.B. Colbert and Jason Colbert to honor the longstanding traditions of the Roh-Hatz.

Barry kidnapped a young trespasser named Rocky Babb and kept him prisoner in a cave for several days until it was time to engage in the ritual. When Rocky's girlfriend Gilda Darner came around and began starting trouble, Barry ambushed her and brought her out into the woods as well. They set them free whereupon Barry, T.B. and Jason shifted into the Jagerbar forms and began hunting them. Homicide detective and Grimm hunter Nick Burkhardt arrived in the woods with Frank Rabe just in time to prevent the boys from murdering Rocky and Gilda.