TUCCI1969-006 - ethnographic attestation
Villages around Sora, Frosinone
Lazio - Ciociaria - Southern Europe (NE Italy)
Play / practical
je mescone Italian
je mescone (Sora); uentareglie (Valianito); schiavetta, cucchiarella, lenguetta (Selva); je pazzejareglie (Carnello); la parruza (Campoli Appennino); zeuarella (Arpino).
Around Sora, in the Ciociaria, nearly every village named the little roarer differently: je mescone in Sora itself, la parruza at Campoli Appennino, zeuarella at Arpino, schiavetta or cucchiarella or lenguetta at Selva. The thing itself stayed constant — a strip of board a palm long and two fingers wide, bored at the tip, tied to a string, and spun fast.
- Object
- A rhomboid or rectangle cut from a small board, a palm long and two fingers wide, bored at the tip and tied to a string.
- Function
- Boys' toy, spun fast on its single string.
- Map confidence
- medium - Sora town; one regional row for the named villages.
- Source location
- Tucci 1969, p. 370
- Toy / secular survival