Vulgar words in Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals (Page 1)
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In addition to all the ill chances of gambling, extravagance, making love to another man's wife, etc., by which a man may become a debtor slave, customs exist which are traps for the unwary.
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Their children were named: the boys,--Sooty, Cowherd, Clumsy, Clod, Bastard, Mud, Log, Thickard, Laggard, Grey Coat, Lout, and Stumpy; the girls,--Loggie, Cloggie, Lumpy [= Leggie], Snub-nosie, Cinders, Bond-maid, Woody [= Peggy], Tatter-coatie, Crane-shankie.
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In Bulgaria the wives are from five to ten years older than the husbands, because boys of fourteen begin to make love, but to adult marriageable women.
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The demon turned into the clown or buffoon, but the phallus was kept as an emblem of his rôle, like the later cap and bells of the fool, until the fifth century of the Christian era in the West, and until the fall of the Byzantine empire.
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Ecclesiastical persons also were represented with it, since the buffoon always wore it, whatever his rôle.
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Buffoons had a share in the great "moralities," although they did not have a rôle in the action.
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Late in the fifteenth century, in France, a buffoon recited a prelude containing licentious jests to an edifying morality called _Charity_.
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"In 1666-1667 every house on the island of Texel had an opening under the window where the lover could enter so as to sit on the bed and spend the night making love to the daughter of the house."
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Modern analogies.+ The end man of the negro minstrel troupe is a modern creation like the Greek _phlyax_, for he is a buffoon of the plantation-negro type, with every feature exaggerated to the utmost, so that he is unreal and a caricature; but the exaggerations direct attention to familiar facts and display characteristic features which are a cause of merriment.
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Martyrdoms were represented on the stage, the martyr being the buffoon.
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At the "feast of the ass" an ass was led into church and treated with mock respect.
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This rôle,--that of the _badin_ in France, the _gracioso_ in Spain, _arlequino_ in Italy, _Hanswurst_ in Germany,--becomes fixed like the buffoon (_maccus_) in the classical comedy.
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Their emblem was the cap with two horns or ass's ears.
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The servant-buffoon was the time form of the buffoon.
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Hemmerlein was an ugly and sarcastic buffoon of the fourteenth century.
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[2135] Such were Maccus (later Polichinella) of Naples, Manducus or the French Croquemitaine, Bucco, a half-stupid, half-sarcastic buffoon, Pappus (the later Venetian Pantalon) the fussy old man, and Casnar, the French Cassandre.
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[2034] Preuss (_Archiv für Anthrop._, XXIX, 182) suggests that Falstaff's fatness may be a survival of one of the physical features of the stereotyped buffoon.
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At the same time usage had familiarized everybody with the concubinage of priests and prelates, and all Christendom knew that popes had their bastards living with them in the Vatican, where they were married and dowered by their fathers as openly as might be done by princes in their palaces.
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The title "bastard" was often worn with pride.
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[2270] Although it was true that woman "occupied a place by the side of man, contended with him for intellectual prizes, and took part in every spirited movement," although many of them became celebrated for humanistic attainments, and were intrusted with the government of states,[2271] yet it was not possible that they could maintain womanly honor and dignity side by side with the concubines and bastards of their husbands.
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[2272] The individualism of the period is interpreted as a motive for making love to the wife of another, that is, to another fully developed individual.