{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-005","label":"Koper el volo bullroarer","people_or_site":"Boys of Capodistria (Koper)","country_current":"Slovenia","historic_region":"Capodistria / Koper, Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"el volo","source_term":"el volo","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Small elongated blade of wood or tin, whirled on a cord; the usual elongated rombo form, rather small.","function_summary":"Boys' toy, still played in 1925, whirled by preference in periods of strong wind — 'co' xe bora', when the icy northeast wind blows.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_koper_volo","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0206.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 202","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Koper (Capodistria) town centroid.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In Capodistria the bullroarer was el volo, 'the flight': a small blade of wood or tin that boys watched rise into the air like a bird as it whirled — still flying when Battaglia asked in the 1920s. And they flew it by preference when the bora blew, the icy northeast wind that scours the Gulf of Trieste. Battaglia wondered whether an old weather rite hid behind the habit, but what he could attest was the play itself: boys, wind, and a name taken from flight.","pull_quote":"Fanno girare il legno nei periodi di forte vento: 'co' xe bora', quando soffia... il terribile vento gelato di nord-est.","pull_quote_translation":"They whirl the wood in periods of strong wind: 'co' xe bora', when the terrible icy northeast wind blows.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:202","term_gloss":"el volo — 'the flight'; from the blade's rise into the air, a visual analogy to birds in flight (Battaglia's explanation).","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,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 202","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0206.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001850/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0206.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 202","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 202","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small elongated blade of wood or tin, whirled on a cord; the usual elongated rombo form, rather small.","function_display":"Boys' toy, still played in 1925, whirled by preference in periods of strong wind — 'co' xe bora', when the icy northeast wind blows.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"boys capodistria","display_name":"Koper el volo bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/pd_plates/hajnal1906_fig3_torzsa_toys.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/pd_plates/hajnal1906_fig3_torzsa_toys_thumb.jpg","alt":"A photograph of a Torzsa zúgó with cord among several homemade toys displayed against a dark ground.","credit":"Hajnal Ignácz, 'Bácskai gyermekjátékok,' Néprajzi Értesítő 7 (1906), fig. 3","license":"Public domain (published 1906)","source_page":"https://real-j.mtak.hu/17623/1/N%C3%89_1906.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Hungarian zúgó among homemade children’s toys.","pool_id":"auto-pd_plates--hajnal1906_fig3_torzsa_toys"},"slug":"battaglia1925-005-boys-of-capodistria-koper"}