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The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.
The ant works hard all summer, while the grasshopper plays. In winter, the ant is ready but the grasshopper starves. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Ant and the Grasshopper" explores the fable's symbolism via complex framing. [91] Other human weaknesses besides improvidence have become identified with the grasshopper's behaviour. [73]
During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, [32] possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica. [32] Native Athenians wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolize that they were of pure, Athenian lineage and did not have any foreign ancestors. [32]
Mandaya primordial eel – a gigantic eel that the earth sits upon. Earthquakes are triggered when the eel becomes agitated by crabs and small animals, [52] Nāga - a type of fresh water mermaids, but instead of having fish tails, they have the lower body of a water snake and the upper body of a human female. In Philippine folklore and ...
Pelesit (Malay pronunciation:) is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore. [1] It is generally a cricket, or occasionally a grasshopper.The term literally means "buzzer" from the root word lesit meaning to buzz or whizz, as an insect does. [2]
social (totems regulate marriage, and often a person cannot eat the flesh of their totem), cult (totems associated with a secret organization), conception (multiple meanings), dream (the person appears as this totem in others' dreams), classificatory (the totem sorts people) and; assistant (the totem assists a healer or clever person).
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
Species such as the Senegalese grasshopper (Oedaleus senegalensis) [30] and the African rice grasshopper (Hieroglyphus daganensis), both from the Sahel, often display locust-like behaviour and change morphologically on crowding. [30] North America is the only sub-continent besides Antarctica without a native locust species.