От името на плашилото до произхода на карнавала
From the Name of the Scarecrow to the Origin of the Carnival

Summary/Abstract: Starting with Map 1424 of Yagberg and Jude’s Italian-Swiss Atlas (AIS), the first part of the article analyzes the sum total of the Italian names of the scarecrow, whereby the emblematic influence has been pointed out, which the carnival world outlook seemed to have exerted on their specific linguistic definition. Starting from the fragile, but fully perceptible connection between the personage, depicted by the scarecrow, with the ancient farming cults for the field, the second part of the article discusses some major aspects of the agricultural cults of the communities of Antiquity: those of the Arwal Brethren and of the Salic people – and their respective songs: carmen arvale and Carmen saliare, to which they could assumingly be ascribed, through the still fragile but strong “thread of the name”, by the way amply borne out by some specific aspects of the ritual, two major ceremonial epigones of the Middle Ages, respectively carnevale and carnasciale. The conclusive note deals with some of the most outstanding prerequisites justifying this assumption.

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