{"id":"HAJNAL1906-001","label":"Torzsa (Savino Selo) zúgó / Windbrummer","people_or_site":"Torzsa (today Savino Selo), Danube Swabian German villagers","country_current":"Serbia","historic_region":"Bácska (Bács-Bodrog county), Kingdom of Hungary","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"zúgó (Hajnal's Hungarian caption); Windbrummer (local Danube Swabian/German term, per Tolnai 1920:114)","source_term":"zúgó (Windbrummer)","source_language":"Hungarian","object_description":"A pine-wood slat about 75-80 cm long and 6-7 cm wide, pierced with a hole at one end and fitted with a cord.","function_summary":"Whirled overhead by the cord through its pierced end so the board spins on its long axis and 'cleaves the air,' humming like the wind; one of a set of homemade noisemaking toys the German-speaking children of Torzsa built for themselves.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"hajnal1906_torzsa_zugo","source_type":"ethnographic_journal_article","source_url":"https://real-j.mtak.hu/17623/1/N%C3%89_1906.pdf","page_or_plate":"Hajnal 1906, Néprajzi Értesítő 7:59, Fig. 3","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Savino Selo (historic Torzsa), Vrbas municipality, South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia — the named village in Hajnal's account.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A pine slat about as long as a walking cane, pierced at one end and strung on a cord: whirled overhead, it slices the air with a sound like rushing wind. Torzsa's German-speaking children, out on the flat farmland of the Bácska, built their own zúgó — Windbrummer, in their local dialect — alongside handmade whistles, a corn-stalk fiddle bowed with spit-dampened bark strings, and a potato-weighted spinning top.","pull_quote":"A mellette látható zúgó (Windbrummer) egy darab 75—80 cm. hosszú 6—7 cm. széles fenyőfaszilánk, melynek egyik végén lyukat fúrnak, spárgát kötnek rá és forgatva hasítják a levegőt, mire az úgy zúg, mint a szél.","pull_quote_translation":"Next to it can be seen the zúgó (Windbrummer): a piece of pine-wood chip 75-80 cm long and 6-7 cm wide, in one end of which a hole is bored, a cord tied on, and by swinging it they cleave the air, whereupon it hums like the wind.","pull_quote_cite":"Hajnal Ignácz, 'Bácskai gyermekjátékok,' Néprajzi Értesítő 7 (1906), p. 59, Fig. 3.","term_gloss":"zúgó: Hungarian, 'the humming/droning one,' from zúg 'to hum, drone, roar'; Windbrummer: German/Danube-Swabian dialect, 'wind-hummer' — the term Tolnai 1920 records as used locally in Torzsa itself.","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":"Hajnal Ignácz, 'Bácskai gyermekjátékok,' Néprajzi Értesítő 7 (1906), p. 59, fig. 3; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), p. 114","url":"https://real-j.mtak.hu/17623/1/N%C3%89_1906.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250809224513/https://real-j.mtak.hu/17623/1/N%C3%89_1906.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Hajnal Ignácz, 'Bácskai gyermekjátékok,' Néprajzi Értesítő 7 (1906), p. 59, fig. 3; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), p. 114","source_display":"Hajnal Ignácz, 'Bácskai gyermekjátékok,' Néprajzi Értesítő 7 (1906), p. 59, fig. 3; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), p. 114","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A pine-wood slat about 75-80 cm long and 6-7 cm wide, pierced with a hole at one end and fitted with a cord.","function_display":"Whirled overhead by the cord through its pierced end so the board spins on its long axis and 'cleaves the air,' humming like the wind; one of a set of homemade noisemaking toys the German-speaking children of Torzsa built for themselves.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"torzsa","display_name":"Torzsa (Savino Selo) zúgó / Windbrummer","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":false,"caption":"Torzsa zúgó with cord, photographed among homemade toys in 1906."},"slug":"hajnal1906-001-torzsa-today-savino-selo-danube-swabian-german-villagers"}