[Sca-cooks] Quail eggs ( was: no subject)

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

There is a Greek myth about Philomena, who was indeed raped (seduced,
tricked, whatever) by her sister's husband, who cut out her tongue so she
couldn't tell. She wove a tapestry telling her story, and sent it to her
sister. The sisters escaped from the evil husband but he caught up with
them, and so they prayed to the gods for help. Procne (the sister) was
turned into a nightingale, Philomena was turned into a swallow (some
versions have sparrow) who can twitter but cannot sing. The evil husband
was turned into another sort of bird.

Margaret


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> OK, I just had a revelation (you know how when you try to remember
> something, and can't, then later, while you're picking up the dry-cleaning
> or cleaning the hair out of the bathtub drain, it all comes back to you...)
>
> Philomena (Filomena in the Italian) was in Boccaccio's _Decameron_. It was
> the story about a young woman who was raped (ISTR by her sister's husband)
> and was murdered so she wouldn't tell. There was a nightingale involved
> somehow (the nightingale is known by the name). I'd look it up but
> naturally my copy of the _Decameron_ is... (all together now) in storage
> 180 miles away...
>
> *sigh*
>
> Now is to wonder if there's a reason our Troll picked that particular name?
>
> 'Lainie
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