{"id":"BATTAGLIA1925-008","label":"Rovinj la bus de la viecia bullroarer","people_or_site":"Children of Rovigno (Rovinj)","country_current":"Croatia","historic_region":"Rovigno / Rovinj, Istria","macroregion":"Europe / Southeast Europe","local_name":"la bus de la viecia","source_term":"la bus de la viecia","source_language":"Italian / local Istrian and Venetian names","object_description":"Small rectangular slat, no more than about twenty centimetres, whirled in the air.","function_summary":"Children's toy brought out in autumn, 'cu scumenzia a fa frido' — when it begins to get cold; its roar was named the voice of the old woman, of the witch.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"battaglia_1925_rovinj_viecia","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg","page_or_plate":"printed p. 208","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Rovinj town centroid.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"When the first cold came — cu scumenzia a fa frido, in the children's own dialect — the buzzing slats came out in Rovigno: small rectangles of wood, a hand's length and little more, whirled against the greying autumn sky. The roar they made had a name of its own, la bus de la viecia — the voice of the old woman, of the witch — the same dark-voiced hag the boys of Trieste heard shrieking in their orange-crate blades forty miles up the coast.","pull_quote":"La romba mandata dal legno... era detta 'la bus de la viecia' ('la voce della vecchia', 'della strega'), proprio come a Trieste.","pull_quote_translation":"The roar sent out by the wood... was called 'la bus de la viecia' ('the voice of the old woman', 'of the witch'), just as at Trieste.","pull_quote_cite":"Battaglia 1925:208","term_gloss":"la bus de la viecia — 'the voice of the old woman / of the witch' (Rovinj dialect).","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["spirit_voice","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. 208 (informant D. Rismondo)","url":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013001954/http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0212.jpg"}],"source_citations":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 208 (informant D. Rismondo)","source_display":"Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 208 (informant D. Rismondo)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Small rectangular slat, no more than about twenty centimetres, whirled in the air.","function_display":"Children's toy brought out in autumn, 'cu scumenzia a fa frido' — when it begins to get cold; its roar was named the voice of the old woman, of the witch.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"children rovigno","display_name":"Rovinj la bus de la viecia bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-008_battaglia1925-008-porec-regional-fig5.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BATTAGLIA1925-008_battaglia1925-008-porec-regional-fig5_thumb.jpg","credit":"Raffaello Battaglia; Sapienza University scan","license":"Public domain in US (1925); EU copyright through 2028, no scan licence stated; rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/smsr/archive/1925/l/0210.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Poreč, Istria, wooden bullroarers."},"slug":"battaglia1925-008-children-of-rovigno-rovinj"}