Urth Net
Digest whorl.v012.n129
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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Pajaro Cu
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
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en su preciosa gorjear:
Sorry, should be "precioso".
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The "piru", much used in Mexican traditional
medicine and witchcraft, appears to be _Schinus
molle_...
Or maybe another tree of the genus Schinus.
To answer Rostrum (Yahoo truncated the digest
message),
part of the point of the folk-tale is to explain bird
behavior. The song I posted explains why the owl says
"ticu-ticu" (and there may be a Spanish pun here, but
I couldn't get my teacher to commit himself on the
subject); Wijzer's version explains both why the owl
says "cu" and why the "snake-eater bird" is silent.
And it explains why you might name an invisible town
Pajarocu. If there's anything else, I'm missing it.
Jerry