No. BATTAGLIA1925-003
Friulian plain el tuto bullroarer
Friuli · Aquileia, Ronchi, Cervignano · Europe · Northeast Italy
Play / practical
el tuto
Source term: rombo / el tuto (Aquileia)
el tuto — Aquileia; Battaglia derives it from Italian tutto 'all', via 'prendi tutto' ('take all'), the winning face of a put-and-take top, a name extended to the whirling toy.
On the Friulian plain the bullroarer lived out its last generations as a plaything: a small rectangular slat on a string, seen whirling in the farm country around Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano within living memory when Battaglia asked in the 1920s. At Aquileia they called it el tuto — 'the take-all' — a name lifted from the winning face of a put-and-take top. In the town that was once Rome's great Adriatic port, that was what remained of the roarer: a name, a string, and a memory.
Il rombo fu visto giocare anni addietro nella campagna di Aquileia, di Ronchi e di Cervignano... Ad Aquileia era chiamato el tuto.
The bullroarer was seen played years ago in the countryside of Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano... At Aquileia it was called el tuto.
Battaglia 1925:195
Particulars
- Object
- Small rectangular wooden slat tied to one string; seen played in the countryside of Aquileia, Ronchi and Cervignano within living memory of 1925.
- Function
- Toy of the farm country; already only a memory when Battaglia's informants described it.
Source
Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), p. 195 (informants Ugo Pellis and Francesco Blasig)