Augurius ex avibus. Aproximação ao significado do cuco nos sistemas simbólicos europeus
Abstract
This work has its origins in the empirical observation of a practice of Lugo’s rural communities, where, during the first days of Spring previous to arrival of the cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), people fast to avoid “castration” by this bird. Through an etnographical survey in which fraseological and popular interpretations where collected together with a revision of existing literature on the subject this study approached and seeks to reveal some of the meanings and attributions of this bird in European symbolical systems exposing traces of a wide mythological complex.
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