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аэрофон вихревой
Portuguese
rombo
Catalan
brunzidor
Spanish
churinga
Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.
whizzer
rhombus
bullroarer
turndun
bull-roarers
thunderstick
Russian
аэрофон вихревой
1
By this time the
bull
-
roarer
had ceased to bellow among the rocks.
2
Through it all the voice of the King whirled like a
bull
-
roarer
.
3
The memory of the old hag and the
bull
-
roarer
was in my mind.
4
To study the
bull
-
roarer
is to take a lesson in folklore.
5
Are the spear-thrower and the
bull
-
roarer
inevitably thought of as alive?
6
The
bull
-
roarer
has, of all toys, the widest diffusion, and the most extraordinary history.
7
The
bull
-
roarer
has been, and is, a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands.
8
The
bull
-
roarer
is an instrument easily invented by savages, and easily adopted into the ritual of savage mysteries.
9
A sound like a single bell chime followed by the growl of a
bull
-
roarer
suddenly came to our ears.
10
There are students who would found on this a hypothesis that the various races that use the
bull
-
roarer
all descend from the same stock.
11
Nearly all of them had ratchets or droning pipes or
bull
-
roarers
or circle-bowed strings clamoring out their own particular recognition signal.
12
When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns, or
bull
-
roarers
,
and made to listen to their hideous din.
Russian
аэрофон вихревой
Portuguese
rombo
Catalan
brunzidor
Spanish
churinga
bramadera