A village of just under 1000 inhabitants, located in the region of Sierra de la Demanda in the southeast of the province. It would be just another town in our Spain if it were not for the names of its inhabitants, who have had the habit of baptizing children according to martyrology. Some examples: Alpidia, Anicetus, Arnulf, Burgundophora, Digna Marciana, Estercacia, Evilasius, Clovis, Canuta, Euphronia, Ebonius, Philogonius, Glafida, Hieronides, Hercilium, Onesiferus, Respicius Godefrid, Syndulfus, Walfrid. . . . In 2008 an International Meeting of Rare Names was held here.
A medical term derived from the Greek otos, ear, and lithos, stone. Carbonate crystals present in the canals of the inner ear that inform about the physical balance of the body. When they come out of the utricle, they generate paroxysmal positional vertigo, which is solved with the Semont and Epley maneuvers.
The greatest of the Fates (tria fata) of the Romans: the Nona marking birth, the Tenth marriage and the Morta death cutting the thread of life. The latter the Greeks called Atropos, the inevitable. For some artisans it is dead wood, aged and hardened in an aqueous medium without oxygen, such as lakes or swampy areas, over hundreds or thousands of years. With the slow mineralization of its tannins, the oak acquires a black coloration and the birch reddish coloration. It is often used to make hookahs, sculptures, or other craft objects.
Also toletole or simply tole : situation of shouting, noise, ruckus, uproar, disorder or confusion. This term, which is hardly heard anymore, arose from a biblical text of the Christian liturgy in which the populace replies to Pontius Pilate: Tolle, tolle, crucifige eum: Take away, take away, crucify him. And so it began to be said that a toletole was formed, equivalent to a tiberium or a riot.
Great Britain Pound . Acronym for the British pound ( ? ) official currency of the United Kingdom and some overseas colonies, which they did not want to abandon even at the stage when they were part of the European Union. Until 1971 a pound had 20 shillings and 240 pence. With decimalization you have 100 pence.
Galician term : Lumbre, light that wanders, firefly, which in my land they also say gleaming coconut. This insect that entomologists call lampyris noctiluca receives an infinite number of names in popular terminology such as verme da noite, lucecú , lusicú , luceiro , luzbela , lucerna , avellina da cea , vella do caldo , coco relumbrón , bicho do lume , cociñeiro , corcoño . In our diverse Spains, more than a hundred different names have been counted, according to the areas: Lucerico , llanterneta , candil , candilico , candileja , alumbranoche , cuckoo de Dios , coco de luz , nochérniga . . .
Prepositional locution with the preferred meaning of in addition to , in addition to , also . It is in this sense that Cervantes uses it most of the time. But in some he gives it the meaning of except, with the exception of , outside of, as when the innkeeper says this to Don Quixote: "If your worship, sir knight, seeks an inn, as well as a bed, for there is none in this inn, everything else will be found in it in great abundance."
The whole popular saying goes: "Bread, which is left over; meat, let it suffice, and wine, let it be lacking", that is to say, and according to my interpretation of popular wisdom: bread in abundance, meat only enough and wine rather scarce. However, I have heard other versions of the same saying depending on the social contexts.
Yes, it was a Roman emperor, who succeeded Augustus, thanks to the poisonings planned by his mother. It is also a mess, uproar, mess, disorder, tumult or shouting that is armed, messed or mounted when many camorristas and people of little order come together like those who accompanied the emperor in his revelries and at the end of his reign. But I also want to point out that it is a localism of Zamora, a tapa of mussels with somewhat spicy sauce that they serve in the area of Los Lobos. Of course, here they are not armed or bundled, they are taken and with pleasure.
Galician diminutive of achegada , adjective of achegar , to approach , to be close , to be relative . In Castilian it would be acercadiña, or better, that is or goes close, like the boat of A Virxe do Portovello de las Tanxugueiras and Rozalén: Polo mar abaixo vai o meu amor. Polo mar abaixo vai o meu ben . Polo mar abaixo vai una barquiña , moi achegadiña a vía do tren .
The one who does not have a garlic, has an onion. Catalan saying: Everyone has problems of one kind or another. Everyone has an illness, a disease, a worry or another. No one enjoys perfect health. Some synonyms, words or similar expressions can be qui no té un nap , té una cabbage qui no té un bony , té una berruga
Greek term, from dexios, right-handed, right-handed, right-handed. Handshake, representation of agreement, concord and peace, ritual of our usual greeting since classical Greece. By offering our hand to our fellow human beings, according to anthropologists, we are conveying this message: I come in peace, I do not want to attack you, I want an agreement.
Already Pliny the Elder spoke of this plant in his Natural History. De onos in Greek, ass. I have found that it is one of the plants preferred by donkeys especially in spring when it is tender. Then it develops dangerous sharp thorns in which the girls of my land stuck the white marrow of the reeds coiled in a spiral. For my land they call it agatina, they also call it gatuna, gatuña, pimple and in other ways.
Phenomenon typical of deserts although until recently it was thought that they only existed in Namibia and Australia. These circular formations, more visible from the air, are formed by creeping desert vegetation around an empty space. Its causes are being investigated and seem to be related to the better use of scarce moisture by desert vegetation. I do not know if they have any relation with the witches of our latitudes, a totally different phenomenon, which I will try to characterize separately.
