In the underrated movie "Logan's Run" Carousel was also a ritual where people would willingly and enthusiastically be killed in the expectation of being reincarnated. [0][1]
This is a bit exaggerated. Apparently during the crusades knights learned about a training regimen used by arab cavalry involving riding a horse around a pivot and tossing an object between them. The object of the excercise was to train dexterity in battle. European knights inspired, developed games to train their own cavalry. In italian, they called it carusella (little war).
Regular folk thought it was fun, eventually this lead to the development of the children’s carousel. So it’s a stretch to call training tool for death. It was in a very, very different form a training tool for survivability for cavalry.
Also, which is the source of this etymology for “carusella”?
I’m Italian, and it sounded very strange, so I made a little research.
Treccani dictionary, says the word comes from neapolitan “carusiello”, ball of clay, equivalent to small head of caruso, caruso means boy in neapolitan. Because players originally threw each others clay balls.
This makes lot more sense.
This is a very dramatic presentation for something that does not warrant it.
I'd imagine medium's servers would combust trying to contain this guy's post about a hypothetical something that has its roots in something like the holocaust gas chambers.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] thread[0] http://logans-run.wikia.com/wiki/Carousel
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnLU9nyFSA
Regular folk thought it was fun, eventually this lead to the development of the children’s carousel. So it’s a stretch to call training tool for death. It was in a very, very different form a training tool for survivability for cavalry.
I’m Italian, and it sounded very strange, so I made a little research. Treccani dictionary, says the word comes from neapolitan “carusiello”, ball of clay, equivalent to small head of caruso, caruso means boy in neapolitan. Because players originally threw each others clay balls. This makes lot more sense.
I'd imagine medium's servers would combust trying to contain this guy's post about a hypothetical something that has its roots in something like the holocaust gas chambers.
After the that the story was still informative but more of a let-down.