{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-007","label":"Porec coa de la cagnea bullroarer","people_or_site":"Children of Parenzo (Porec); also Villanova di Parenzo","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Parenzo / Porec, Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"coa de la cagnea","source_term":"coa de la cagnea; cord 'el spago sforzin'; handgrip 'la manetola'","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Light slat of 10-15 cm, cut from the thin boards of pasta crates, with a hole at one end; the cord (el spago sforzin) carried a little wooden handgrip, la manetola.","function_summary":"Children's toy played in all weathers but most of all on days of scirocco, the humid rain-bringing wind; at nearby Villanova boys brought it out when a storm threatened.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_porec_cagnea","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0210.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 205-207; Figure 5 A-B p. 206","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Porec town centroid; Villanova di Parenzo (~45.245, 13.605) carried the storm-day habit.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The children of Parenzo named their bullroarer for the most fearsome thing in their sea: coa de la cagnea, the shark's tail. Its cord carried a little wooden handgrip, la manetola, and the game had teeth — a boy grazed a companion's head with the whirling blade and shouted 'la coa de la cagnea te ga beca': the shark's tail has caught you. They played in all weathers, but most of all on days of scirocco, the humid wind that brings the rain; at Villanova nearby, the blades came out when a storm threatened.","pull_quote":"Questo legno ronzante era noto col nome di 'coa de la cagnea' ('la coda del pesce cane').","pull_quote_translation":"This buzzing wood was known by the name 'coa de la cagnea' — 'the tail of the shark'.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:206","term_gloss":"coa de la cagnea — 'the shark's tail'; la cagnea is the shark, 'the ferocious and voracious sea monster' (Battaglia 1925:207).","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","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), pp. 205-207, fig. 5 A-B (informant Francesco Babudri)","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0210.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240324170002/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0210.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 205-207, fig. 5 A-B (informant Francesco Babudri)","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 205-207, fig. 5 A-B (informant Francesco Babudri)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Light slat of 10-15 cm, cut from the thin boards of pasta crates, with a hole at one end; the cord (el spago sforzin) carried a little wooden handgrip, la manetola.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children parenzo","display_name":"Porec coa de la cagnea bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-007_battaglia1925_fig5ab_parenzo.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-007_battaglia1925_fig5ab_parenzo_thumb.jpg","alt":"Battaglia’s Figure 5 drawing of two Parenzo coa de la cagnea bullroarers: one rectangular, the other pointed with la manetola, its small wooden handgrip, and looping cords.","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia, SMSR 1 (1925), fig. 5 A-B","license":"Published 1925 — US public domain; EU term runs to 2029 (Battaglia d. 1958); rehosted low-res","source_page":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0210.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Battaglia's Figure 5: the two Parenzo coa de la cagnea forms, the pointed one keeping la manetola, its wooden handgrip."},"slug":"battaglia1925-007-children-of-parenzo-porec-also-villanova-di-parenzo"}