Some echoes of a Danube Banate stinger “Fly” between history, legend and entomology  Cover Image

Câteva ecouri ale unei « muşte » înţepătoare din Banatul dunărean, între istorie, legendă şi entomologie.
Some echoes of a Danube Banate stinger “Fly” between history, legend and entomology

Author(s): Gilles Bardy
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Golubacz fly; Iovan Iorgovan; Danubian folklore; entomology; Medical history; travellers; Mouche columbaque; Iovan Iorgovan; folklore danubien; entomologie; histoire médicale; voyageurs; Musca columbacă; Iovan Iorgovan; folclor dunărean; entomologie; isto

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of an unitary choice of documentary data resulting from historical sources, interpretation of legendary local elements and entomological works, this paper proposes an examination of the luck, both regional and foreign, of an economic, medical and human scourge who still hurted, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the Romanian context: invasions of the “Golubacz fly”.

  • Issue Year: IX/2013
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 67-82
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French