It is the shrub par excellence of my land with a beautiful flower in the month of May, which has always warmed the Alistanas kitchens. Its leaves secrete a pringous substance, the labdanum, which there they call cerute. In the rainy temperate autumns and in symbiosis with a bacterium, according to researchers from the University of Valladolid, from its roots sprouts the boletus edilis, the mushroom of the rockrose, say the alistanos, a gastronomic delight. These days I have remembered Victor Jara, the Chilean singer-songwriter, murdered by Pinochet and his panda in collaboration with those above in '73. It seems that they want to start doing justice. Good hours, green sleeves! 50 years later!
Instrument of torture used by the Inquisition to make those who fell into its clutches sing. I think some dictatorships have also used it in more recent times. It consists of a pointed wooden pyramid on which the body of the unfortunate was dropped. The idea is attributed to the sixteenth-century Bolognese jurist Ippolito Marsili.
Plant of the boraginácea family, considered weeds by farmers and traditionally used as a poultice to remove warts and as a healing agent. Today we know that it has a toxic alkaloid, cinoglosin. People have named it in many ways as verruguera, scorpion tail, litmus, sunflower, malgirasol, heliotrope. . . Botanists identify it as heliotropium europaeum.
Also atutía, from the Spanish Arabic attutiyya, traditional medicine in the form of ointment for the eyes, made with zinc oxide from chimneys and ovens. Over time it came to mean remedy for something like in the expression "there is no tutía" and also "there is no your aunt", there is no solution to some difficulty or problem impossible to solve.
Japanese term with meaning of bombed person and refers as is logical to all the people who survived with consequences of all kinds to the nuclear explosions caused by the US in August 1945 against the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The worst sequelae are the genetic ones that affect and will affect the offspring. This collective wound that they do not want us to talk about is not healed by covering it.
Loud, sharp, prolonged and at the end choppy cry that expresses joy and collective enthusiasm in the festivals and pilgrimages of Galicia and other areas of the peninsular northwest accompanying the popular songs and dances. I also remember it associated with the nights before the party in which the waiters were cheerful. His cry echoed contagious with enthusiasm in the silence of the night.
Also scalping. Action and effect of scalping or poaching, skinning or tearing off part or all of the human cranial scalp. From English scalp, scalp. The fact can be intentional as a trophy of war or form of torture or accidental due to lack of security in the engine of the voadeiras in the Amazon.
And this question that Galician grandparents usually ask especially now in summer to the rapaciños who arrive from the city or those they do not know, what do you see being? Who have you been? What family are you from? This question, I say, became a few years ago a musical group that follows in the Celtic wake of Luar na Lubre and Milladoiro. This afternoon I listened to Muiñeira da Cabra. A cool one.
Before the world was a handkerchief there were many quarrels and tensions between the peoples of our Castile and everywhere. Today I stop in Alcocer, (small castle, said the Arabs), a beautiful village in the Alcarria. "It is more gross than those of Alcocer, who threw the Christ into the river because it did not rain." Or this one: "Do like those of Alcocer, that when it rains, they let it fall".
Demographers, sociologists and social researchers study the different and especially the last generations for political, economic and all kinds of purposes. The millennial or millennial generation or generation Y goes from 1980 to 1995. It is followed by the post-millennial or centuric generation or generation Z that includes those born between 1995 and 2010 and as they did not calibrate the alphabet well we are now in the Alpha generation, from 2010 to (I suppose) 2025. Post-millennials (it is better to use our name) are always connected to social networks, are perhaps more self-taught and are more concerned about the global environment and social justice, although some are still almost children.
