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Bannalkar pixe - baint lipon raulole
The abv line is taken from the konkani song "Add Nanvam" sung by Emeliano De
Borda, lyrics of which were provided by Domnic on this forum.
I had also written a post on add nanvam./old saying for
villagekar/nicknames.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2004-March/010861.html
Bannalkars were called pixe cause they used to hide in the well, which is a
common place.
Regarding Moidechi pissai or Moideche pixe- which was also explained
earlier. As great a fool as poeple of Moira, who try to collect sun rays in
a
barrel so that they may have sunshine in rainy weather.
Dev Borem korum
Edward Verdes
Chinchinim/KSA
> >From a distance, I guess it had more to do with
> Salcete caste rivalry
> and snobbery, rather than the actual predominant
> state of the mental
> health of the villagers. Would the others agree?
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Dear FN,
How could you turn my loving tribute to those "Banale
pishes" to this ? :-)
Actually I don't think it had much to do with caste. I
maybe wrong but from my garden-variety anthropological
viewpoint; in those days villages were more like
clans. An entire village could be related to each
other either by blood lines or through marriage and
hence I think villages did have a certain flavour to
them, based on odd characteristics. There might have
been a large prominent family in Banale that was mad
er mentally challenged :-), and hence the nickname to
the villagers. Other names of villagers were based on
trade, such as "Suralcar - poder" or "tiarist" or even
"chors", again this had to with certain family
businessed flourishing in that particular vaddo. Other
names included rhymes such as "Murde pude".
selma
