Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (2)

Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (2)

Plant nicknames (2)
Geraldo Luiz Mazza

Of the nicknames classic Paranaguá, there are some folklorized, it is reproduced in other
coastal spots in the country, as will had occurred.
Of these, the most decanted is the citizen who came to the city and would not take that bet nickname: checked into the hotel and the Plaza Fernando Amaro, from time to time, hidden behind a curtain, gave a look to the outside world.
Turned the "cuckoo", the bird clock that sticks out of the house to give the hours.
Another was a federal employee - Customs and Revenue - that barely got off the ship because of some strain on the fingers that had been loaded with lumps called "hand of ginger."
The lightning speed with which man seaside labels people by a caricatural way is tremendous. Sometimes, however, brings a huge load of cruelty.
There was the strangest in Paranaguá be with congenital malformation, with hoarse voice, and he had no arms and legs complete, it is anatomically designed.
It was the "crust", although they gave the tone of pity and affection even when pronounced.
Lived inside a cardboard box and was almost always left on the platform of railway station by relatives in order, of course, to collect alms.
One legend says that on one occasion tried to play with a sailor U.S. and scare him huskily, saying "hands down" and that the Yankee, scared, and in retaliation, kicked in the cardboard box, turning the "kibble" first astronaut, that in the fifties.
Of course there came the condiments of the Cold War, the bipolar division of geopolitics and unwillingness to Americans.
But the spark of pamanguara not limited to the immediacy of these definitions caricatures, since this process knows incorporate the manipulation of the collective unconscious, the legends, mythology place.
Striking example of this linkage occurred at a football match between Coritiba and select, in the seventies: Finch, right winger "thigh" who came from Apucarana, was an exceptional dribbler and made the devil in your sector of the field on the side Alcione .
In one, after going through the marker, with three dribbles followed disconcerting, bookmark, in an effort to gladiator, got a "tade" catch the attacker.
This, as is tradition, rolled in the grass waiting for the miracle agüinha. The crowd howled in support side.
Suddenly, however to note that the recovery took, was taken by a kind of Shakespearean remorse, those who tormented Macbeth and Timon of Athens, and plunged in respectful silence, hoping that no fracture occurred.
It was then, at that moment, in the middle of the crowd, religiously constricted, heard the voice fi nest and Galata, that tone sung littoral that sounded like a Gregorian chant in the church choir, "blows the ass of him that he raises! "
Therapy was also when the boys divided between joy to overthrow a bird and effort to save her, drove away the feathers of the bird's back and there assopravam.
A holy medicine, lyrical too, but for a small bird.

Geraldo Luiz Mazza is a journalist.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.