{"id":"ILIE2017-001","label":"Bucesti trench bullroarer, July 1917","people_or_site":"Romanian Army veterans, Bucesti village, behind the Siret line","country_current":"Romania","historic_region":"Siret front, Galati county","macroregion":"Europe / Eastern Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"Romanian","object_description":"A shingle slat tied to a single string, improvised in camp; whirled in the air it shrieked like a shell in flight.","function_summary":"Soldiers' improvised toy and prank, July 1917: old hands whirled the shingle so its projectile-whistle sent the recruits diving for the dugouts.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"ilie_2017_bucesti","source_type":"published_account","source_url":"https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/reviste/muzeul-national/dl.asp?filename=29-muzeul-national-XXIX-2017.pdf","page_or_plate":"Ilie 2017, p. 132","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Bucesti village (Ivesti commune, Galati), immediately behind the 1917 Siret line as the memoir states.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In July 1917, in the village of Bucesti just behind the Siret line, a few of the old madcaps of the Romanian Army invented a toy: a shingle slat tied to a string. Whirled in the air it gave the exact shriek of a shell in flight — and the recruits, the memoir says, ran like mice for the dugouts. For one summer of the war the world's oldest whirring instrument served as the front's cruellest practical joke.","pull_quote":"Când o învârteau în aer, șindrila scotea un zgomot ca de proiectil... Recruții... fugeau ca șoarecii la adăposturi.","pull_quote_translation":"When they whirled it in the air, the shingle made a noise like a projectile... The recruits... ran like mice for the shelters.","pull_quote_cite":"Alexandru Pelimon's memoir, in Ilie, Muzeul Național XXIX (2017), p. 132","term_gloss":"","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":"Cornel-Constantin Ilie, Muzeul Național XXIX (2017), p. 132","url":"https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/reviste/muzeul-national/dl.asp?filename=29-muzeul-national-XXIX-2017.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Cornel-Constantin Ilie, Muzeul Național XXIX (2017), p. 132","source_display":"Cornel-Constantin Ilie, Muzeul Național XXIX (2017), p. 132","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A shingle slat tied to a single string, improvised in camp; whirled in the air it shrieked like a shell in flight.","function_display":"Soldiers' improvised toy and prank, July 1917: old hands whirled the shingle so its projectile-whistle sent the recruits diving for the dugouts.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"romanian army","display_name":"Bucesti trench bullroarer, July 1917","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LANG1884-001_maa_1922-385_norwich.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LANG1884-001_maa_1922-385_norwich_thumb.jpg","alt":"English boys' bullroarer from Norwich, Norfolk.","credit":"Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge (1922.385)","license":"No open licence stated (Cambridge MAA online image) — rehosted for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects-and-photographs/?keyword=1922.385","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Norwich country-boys bullroarer.","pool_id":"europe-norwich-toy"},"slug":"ilie2017-001-romanian-army-veterans-bucesti-village-behind-the-siret-line"}