{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-004","label":"Trieste la striga bullroarer","people_or_site":"Boys of Trieste (Rozzol-Settefontane and other districts)","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Trieste / Rozzol-Settefontane","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"la striga","source_term":"la striga; the game 'far el vento'","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Rectangular or elongated-oval slat, 30-60 cm, cut from the light wood of orange crates, a hole at one end for the whirling cord. On the colle di San Vito, boys whirled a flat stone on a string the same way — Battaglia's 'new and uncommon type of rombo' in which a stone replaces the usual wooden slat.","function_summary":"Boys' summer toy, whirled at a run through the streets; its deep voice earned it the district name la striga, 'the witch', and the game itself was called far el vento, 'making the wind'.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_trieste_striga","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0204.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 197-201","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Trieste city centroid; the accounts span several districts (Rozzol-Settefontane, Barriera Vecchia, Cittavecchia, San Vito, Montebello).","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Trieste the bullroarer was cut from the lightest wood to hand — the slats of orange crates — thirty to sixty centimetres long, a hole at one end, whirled at a run through the summer streets. Sixty years before Battaglia wrote, the children of Rozzol-Settefontane called its dark voice la striga, the witch, and shouted to each other to hear her screech. Other Trieste boys named the game itself: far el vento, making the wind.","pull_quote":"'Senti come che ziga la striga', esclamavano i monelli udendo la voce cupa e impressionante del rombo.","pull_quote_translation":"'Hear how the witch screeches!' the urchins cried on hearing the deep, unsettling voice of the bullroarer.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:200","term_gloss":"la striga — Triestine 'the witch' (strega); the game was far el vento, 'to make the wind'.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), pp. 197-201: orange-crate slats 30-60 cm whirled in summer (p. 197); 'la striga' naming at Rozzol-Settefontane ~1865, informant E. Neumann (p. 200); 'far el vento' from Dr. P. Calleari and don Novack (p. 201)","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0204.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001635/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0204.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), pp. 197-201: orange-crate slats 30-60 cm whirled in summer (p. 197); 'la striga' naming at Rozzol-Settefontane ~1865, informant E. Neumann (p. 200); 'far el vento' from Dr. P. Calleari and don Novack (p. 201)","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete (1925), pp. 197-201: orange-crate slats 30-60 cm whirled in summer (p. 197); 'la striga' naming at Rozzol-Settefontane ~1865, informant E. Neumann (p. 200); 'far el vento' from Dr. P. Calleari and don Novack (p. 201)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Rectangular or elongated-oval slat, 30-60 cm, cut from the light wood of orange crates, a hole at one end for the whirling cord. On the colle di San Vito, boys whirled a flat stone on a string the same way — Battaglia's 'new and uncommon type of rombo' in which a stone replaces the usual wooden slat.","function_display":"Boys' summer toy, whirled at a run through the streets; its deep voice earned it the district name la striga, 'the witch', and the game itself was called far el vento, 'making the wind'.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys trieste","display_name":"Trieste la striga bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain Kissziget zúgattyú blade, drilled near one end and marked with handwriting near the other.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, NM 44622","license":"Rights reserved (© Néprajzi Múzeum); image reproduction authorization required; proposed for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101077918/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Kissziget zúgattyú board, Néprajzi Múzeum.","pool_id":"auto-GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622"},"slug":"battaglia1925-004-boys-of-trieste-rozzol-settefontane-and-other-districts"}