{"id":"LUND2020-004","label":"Norway fishermen wind-protection bullroarers","people_or_site":"Norwegian fishermen","country_current":"Norway","historic_region":"Norwegian fjords","macroregion":"Europe / Northern Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"traditional bullroarers","source_language":"English","object_description":"Lund reports Norwegian fishermen using traditional bullroarers both as magical protection against dangerous fjord winds and as signal instruments for gathering a local fishing team.","function_summary":"Mixed magical weather-protection and signal use; tie goes to weather/subsistence magic in the public color coding.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"lund2020_bullroarer_global","source_type":"comparative_secondary","source_url":"https://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.hagel/litoa/EMAP_ENG.pdf","page_or_plate":"EMAP p. 31","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Western Norway fjord regional anchor; Lund does not name a precise locality.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Norwegian fishermen swung traditional bullroarers as a magical guard against the dangerous winds of the fjords, and used the same instrument's carrying sound to call the local fishing team together. The detail comes from the music archaeologist Cajsa S. Lund, who sets it beside other living Scandinavian uses: in Scania, Sweden, as late as the 1940s, young men attracted bats with bullroarers, then killed, dried, and pulverized the animals to brew an aphrodisiac potion. Lund names no particular fjord community and cites no underlying ethnographic record, so the Norwegian fishermen stand here as a regional report rather than a single documented rite.","pull_quote":"In Norway fishermen used traditional bullroarers as a magical protection against dangerous winds in the fjords but also as a signal instrument for gathering the local team of fishermen.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Cajsa S. Lund, \"The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,\" in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe (EMAP), p. 31.","term_gloss":"","cls":"weather","class_label":"Weather / fertility magic","color":"#2F6FA3","is_candidate":false,"flags":["weather","toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 31","url":"https://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.hagel/litoa/EMAP_ENG.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260703172850/https://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.hagel/litoa/EMAP_ENG.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 31","source_display":"Cajsa S. Lund, “The Bullroarer: A Global and Timeless Sound Instrument,” in Music and Sounds in Ancient Europe, EMAP (2020), p. 31","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Lund reports Norwegian fishermen using traditional bullroarers both as magical protection against dangerous fjord winds and as signal instruments for gathering a local fishing team.","function_display":"Mixed magical weather-protection and signal use; tie goes to weather/subsistence magic in the public color coding.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"norwegian fishermen","display_name":"Norway fishermen wind-protection bullroarers","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LUND2020-004_nf_1948-1203_hurre.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LUND2020-004_nf_1948-1203_hurre_thumb.jpg","alt":"Norwegian folk hurre: pine slat with cord wound in bands along the shaft.","credit":"Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo (NF.1948-1203) — via DigitaltMuseum","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.no/things/hurre/NF/NF.1948-1203","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Norwegian folk hurre: pine slat with cord wound in bands along the shaft."},"slug":"lund2020-004-norwegian-fishermen"}