Saint / folklore
Stork veneration
A Southern Italian taboo against harming storks, held to bring bad luck.
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A village that ate its storks’ young during the famine is regarded as having called down calamity on itself.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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November 25 1943Wartime hunger drives extreme culinary improvisation, including eating storks and rumors of a manatee served at a banquet for General Clark.
a widespread superstitious aversion to harming storks; a village that ate its storks' nestlings during famine is regarded as having brought calamity on itself
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