«From Spain, neither good wind nor good marriage» - about the sociological enigma of a Portuguese proverb

Abstract

Trying to discover the hidden sociological meaning of such a saying, the author of this article - following several hints that made him to consult the National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics and study the possible historical roots of that saying - arrives to a possible key of decipherment aiming to the integrative function the saying may have played under the point of view of a certain sexual moral prevailing among the Portuguese.