#monteiro lobato

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read The Fancies of Littlenose by Monteiro Lobato (orig. Reinações de Narizinho, 1931)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onMar 25

[val-inositio201421]

Diseño de personaje: Visconde de Sagubosa 🌽💚

Me encanta el resultado final 😭🌻

[doodleswiki]

15 years ago (Apr 18th, 2011) - 129th Birthday of Monteiro Lobato

Doodle made by unknown

This doodle was shown in Brazil

[amor-barato]

Não, a vida nunca foi só a vida, nela há sonhos e fantasias que fazem a realidade ser o que é...

Monteiro Lobato, Cidades Mortas

[kazachokolate]

Suddenly remembered my classicaloid phase and found this crossover with "Sítio do Picapau Amarelo" (2012 cartoon) from 2019 (the second one from 2023). I don't know why, but Visconde reminded me of Shubert.

[moradadabeleza]

Ruy Santos

O ator Paulo Matosinho no filme “O Saci”, baseado na obra de Monteiro Lobato, 1953

[weonlyneedfour]

"Slow down, Pamonha! What's gotten into you, haven't we been shot at by bad guys enough times by now? Well, it's not MY problem you're made of meat and I'm not! The recipe keeps catching on fire cause I can't focus! I am NOT letting them show me up at that stupid cookout, if I can't finish this potion in time, I'm putting YOU in it, got it? Hi-yaah!"

Emilia the Ragdoll

Character created by: Monteiro Lobato Home series: Sitio do Pica Pau Amarelo

Title: Freedom or Death. The Countess of Three Little Stars. The Most Selfish Creature Alive.  Alter Ego: Marchioness. Yakety Ann.  Nationality: Brazilian. Occupation: Space pirate (currently) (not actually a job). The self-appointed brains of whatever group she joins (also not actually a job). Self-employed equestrian dancer, trapeze artist, "cloth fairy", "name giver", "idea inventor", "telescopic looker", Saci hunter, "letter sender", writer of memoirs, chief editor of the Yellow Woodpecker Scream newspaper, and many others (...okay well some of these are actual jobs, kinda). Group affiliation: None. The Encerrabodes Family (formerly). Base of Operations: The Solar System. Yellow Woodpecker Ranch, in Brazil (formerly). Likes: Her pet dog Pamonha. Her former pet rhinoceros Quindim. Collecting artifacts. Talking. Dislikes: Losing. Sitting in silence. Having to stitch herself back together (that's what you're supposed to order the losers around you into doing) Skill: Storytelling. Bossing others around. Chaos.

Powers: Ragdoll brought to life by a talking pill given to her by Doctor Snail (who is not a real doctor, but he is a real snail). Has survived the destruction of her physical form many times and constantly stitches and refills her body back together. Able to curl into a ball and move at high speeds, wrestle beings several times her size, and summon items out of hammerspace.  Displays incongruent biological reactions such as vulnerability to cold, insect bites and terrible smells, suggesting a hybrid existence. Has spent several years / decades in an inanimate state akin to her pre-sentience existence, indicating that the effects of the pill are either temporary or inconsistent. Carries with her a supply of a mysterious pixie powder that enables her to travel through space. Teleportation is not instant and her reserves are limited. 

Once upon a time, there was a strange ranch by the Brazilian countryside where strange adventures befell the family who lived there. In that family at Yellow Woodpecker Ranch, there was a girl named Lúcia, who was gifted a ragdoll by the housemaid Auntie Nastácia, who originally crafted the clumsy little witch out of an old skirt and macela leaves. Lúcia grew tired of talking to a doll that wouldn't answer back, and in one of her adventures, took her to an enchanted kingdom, where she was given a talking pill. With an outlet at last, Emilia began her new life by loudly complaining and cursing about the horrid taste of the pill, and she has never stopped complaining about things in the decades since. 

In no time at all, Emilia made herself into a fiercely independent, opinionated troublemaker. Fearless, stubborn, tempestuous, intolerant of injustice and driven by self-serving curiosity, always quick to insult or argue or speak her mind at length, the raggedy anarchist eagerly takes off on any adventure or goal she sets her mind on, and from 1920 to the 1940s she adventured alongside Lúcia and her family as well as on her own, often getting into trouble and fighting to defend her home and friends from many, many villains.

She's fenced scorpions and fought martian hordes, defeated the world's strongest sailor by tricking him into eating mold, and traveled to the stars on her own and rescued a holy birdman from the Milky Way (after debating whether or not to cut off his wings to see what happened). She's spat in the faces of King Arthur and Hercules, and once held the world hostage with a shrinking spell in an attempt to force the President of the United States to end all war forever. Emilia is a volatile and incorrigibly immature trickster, unburdened with human complications such as organ failure, death, and having to ever accept being wrong in an argument. 

Emilia is currently a living relic of a time that doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did. As Yellow Woodpecker Ranch is nothing more than a children's fantasy series from the early 1900s, whatever freakish anomaly led to Emilia leaving the pages did not carry over to the supporting cast she used to be a part of. She's spent many years in oscillating inactivity where she reverts to inanimate doll form again, and has only sporadically been seen interacting with the local and international caped community over the century. She was last spotted years ago transversing the dunes of Mars with Six-Gun Gorilla and held up in the court of the Clown Kings of Venus months prior, which indicates that she has spent most of her time since traveling across the solar system, using her dwindling reserves of pixie powder, making the most of her sporadic returns to conscience.

It is as of yet unknown whether she's working on any kind of long-term plan, or whether she's merely trying to live and outrun the oblivion that's covered the rest of her family, merely pursuing her destructive and childish carefree whims as long as they'll take her. But then again, those whims have made her quite a force to be reckoned with over the past century. And if this one thinks it'll succeed where thousands failed in finally snuffing out the little firecracker, it's got another thing coming.

[mairamacri]

Côca, o cabeça de abóbora!

[CURIOSIDADE FOLCLÓRICA]

O costume infantil e divertido, em Outubro, de esvaziar abóboras e cortar olhos, nariz e boca buscando uma expressão medonha e iluminar por dentro, está bem longe de ser uma tradição importada americana.

É uma característica cultural milenar da Península Ibérica, que remonta ao tempo dos 'celtiberos'¹, relacionada com o culto celta das "cabeças cortadas", representando as cabeças dos inimigos que foram cortada durante uma guerra ou batalha, em tempos a.C..

Na antiga Beira Alta (província de Portugal) era costume os rapazes levarem espetada num pau, uma abóbora esculpida em forma de cara, com uma vela acesa dentro, lembrando uma caveira, como símbolo das almas do outro mundo.

Em outras regiões de Portugal, essa abóbora cortada em forma de cara levava o nome de coco, que era nome dado à cabeça (com variações de um coco fruta, que tem três orifícios). Por isso, aqui no Brasil, quando vc era criança pentelha e batia ou machucava a cabeça, a vó ou tia avó vinha e falava: "- Bateu o coco? Tadinho..."

Etimologicamente falando, coco é usada em linguagem coloquial para significar a cabeça humana em português e espanhol. Deriva de "crouca" na Galiza, que significa 'cabeça', que por sua vez deriva de "krowkā" em proto-celta com variante "croca", que significa 'cabeça'. Outros cognatos: "crogen" significa 'crânio' na antiga Península da Cornualha - Inglaterra. E "clocan" também significa 'crânio' em Irlandês.

Unindo todos esses elementos ao longo dos séculos... milênios até (por terem variações históricas antes de cristo), acredito que os antigos começaram a atribuir "coco" para uma coisa do mau.

O nome "coco" era um aviso de um mal iminente nos países de língua castelhana e portuguesa, quando as crianças desobedeciam seus pais, não queriam dormir, não queriam comer, ou mesmo colocar medo para não irem à lugares perigosos ou afastados de casa.

Aos poucos "coco" variou para "coca", a coisa do mau, que comia crianças, ou um sequestrador. A coca vigiava as crianças mal educadas em cima do telhado.

A coca funcionava tão bem para assustar a criançada pentelha, que entrou para o folclore lusitano/castelhano. Até ganhou citações em livros, quadros de pintores, e uma cantiga:

“Vai-te coca vai-te coca, para cima do telhado, deixa dormir o menino, um soninho descansado.”

E, eis que a lenda atravessou o oceano e veio parar no Brasil Colônia... E a coca virou cuca, o bicho-papão, a personificação do medo, um ser mutante que assume qualquer forma monstruosa, para assustar as crianças, um papa-crianças. E tinha que cantar pra botar medo na criança, pro pentelho dormir logo e não atrapalhar o namoro dos pais.

Assim, crescemos com essa cantiga, variação lusitana, unindo a cuca e o bicho-papão numa só:

"Nana nenê, que a cuca vem pegar, papai foi na roça e mamãe no cafezal. Bicho papão, sai de cima do telhado deixe esse menino dormir sossegado."

Aí, veio o Monteiro Lobato, em 1921, e transformou a lenda incrível do cabeça de abóbora num personagem totalmente desconstruído.

No livro O Saci, de Monteiro Lobato, ele descreve a cuca como uma velha amedrontadora, que tem "cara de jacaré e garras nos dedos como os gaviões" (broxante...).

Então, com o passar das décadas, as pessoas se esqueceram da coca/cuca cabeça de abóbora e trouxeram a cuca jacaré para assustar a prole desobediente.

PRONTO!

Quando tiver vontade de pegar uma abóbora, cortar olhos, boca e acender uma vela dentro, LEMBRE-SE, NÃO É SÓ UM COSTUME AMERICANO. Ele viajou milênios entre os povos para chegar em sua forma como vemos hoje.

Sabe, né, aquela velha história: Quem conta um conto, aumenta um ponto.

Maira Macri.

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¹. Celtiberos: Povos ibéricos pré-romanos celtas ou celtizados que habitavam a Península Ibérica desde finais da Idade do Bronze, no século XIII a.C., até à romanização da Hispânia, desde o século II a.C. ao século I.

(fonte: Arquivos Provençais de Beira Alta, Wikipédia - Coco/Coca, Bicho-Papão, Cuca, Folclore - Imagem: Google)