Yes. Funny to find this here. This is actually still quite common in my home-town Riedlingen in Swabian Albs during carnival festivites. You can see in the picture [1] that they have attached the bladders to a stick, and the tradition is to hit people on the head with this :o)

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrenzunft_Gole

I think Laura Ingalls Wilder talked about that in Little House in the Big Woods.