Neurospasm
Neurospasma or Neurospaston ( plural : Neurospasmata , Neurospasta or Neurospasten ) refers to a jointed doll moved by tendons or threads , commonly known as " jumping jack ", or puppet especially in the age of Greco-Roman antiquity. But they were already known in ancient Egypt .
The term ( ancient Greek νευρόσπασμα or νευρόσπαστον ) is made up of the Greek words for “tendon, thread” and “pull”, whereby the plural of the word describes not only the majority of such dolls, but sometimes also the feats themselves, which with them Marionettes were performed or the puppet show as a whole.
There were people in ancient Greece who made a living by performing such puppetry tricks in public.
swell
- Aristotle , de mundo, 6.
literature
- νευρόσπαστος. In: Wilhelm Pape : Greek-German concise dictionary . Digital Library, Volume 117, Neusatz and Facsimile, Berlin 2005.
- Neurospasm . In: Jakob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary . Leipzig 1870.