No. FABREVASSAS1987-003
Badia Polesine: the roarer called Death
Badia Polesine region, Rovigo (Veneto), c. 1880 · Europe · Northeast Italy
Function not recorded
la morte
Source term: 'la morte' (Corrain 1957: 156, via Tucci 1969: 376 n. 16)
Around 1880, in the countryside of Badia Polesine, the whirring slat went by the bluntest of names: la morte — death. Cleto Corrain, who set the name down, connected it with the pig bone he had seen knotted to the end of the cord at Ceneselli, in the Alto Polesine.
...une étrange désignation de cet instrument 'la mort', répandue il y a à peu près quatre-vingt ans dans la région de Badia Polesine ainsi qu'il en résulte du témoignage tout de confiance d'un vieux prêtre, Don Bassiano Paiato.
...a strange designation of this instrument, 'death', widespread about eighty years ago in the region of Badia Polesine, as emerges from the entirely trustworthy testimony of an old priest, Don Bassiano Paiato.
Cleto Corrain, in Tucci 1960: 444, quoted by Fabre-Vassas, Etudes rurales 105-106 (1987), printed p. 203
Particulars
- Object
- A folk slat roarer of the Polesine: the rombo-tavoletta, a board whirled on a cord.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Claudine Fabre-Vassas, 'Du cochon pour les morts,' Etudes rurales 105-106 (1987): 181-212, quoting Cleto Corrain in Tucci 1960: 444