No. BATTAGLIA1925-009
Vodnjan la sfronda bullroarer
Croatia · Dignano · Vodnjan, Istria · Southeast Europe
Play / practical
la sfronda
Source term: la sfronda; Croatian-village frndalica
la sfronda — 'the sling' (= la fionda), onomatopoeic from sfrrr; Croatian villagers' frndalica covered both the slat and a pinwheel.
At Dignano the bullroarer belonged to the turn of the year: boys whirled it as winter loosened and into spring, and called it la sfronda, 'the sling' — an onomatopoeic name, Battaglia thought, born of the sfrrr of the blade itself. In the Croatian farming villages of the Rovezia round about, settled long before from Dalmatia, the same slat answered to frndalica — a name the villagers stretched, indifferent to the folklorist's categories, to cover their pinwheels too.
L'oggetto era chiamato 'la sfronda', cioe 'la fionda', come a Cittanova: termine onomatopeico anche questo, da sfrrr, frrr.
The object was called 'la sfronda', that is 'the sling', as at Cittanova: an onomatopoeic term too, from sfrrr, frrr.
Battaglia 1925:208
Particulars
- Object
- Small wooden slat whirled on a cord; played about forty years before 1925.
Source
Raffaello Battaglia, 'Sopravvivenze del rombo nelle Provincie Venete,' Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 1 (1925), pp. 208-209