Our mom is n’t very imaginative when she calls us fauna in from the pasture . When she want the oats and sheep to come in , she hollers , “ Goat , goat ! Sheep , sheep ! ” When she wants horses and pigs , she yell “ Horse , horse ! ” and “ Pig , pig!”We think she should test something like Swedish kulning . Check out the picture above — it ’s smashing ! Kulning , explains Anna Ivarsdotter , prof of musicology at Uppsala University in Sweden , is a pierce career outcry in a high register ( that means it ’s loud and high - slope and ache your ear ) . It carries up to 2½ nautical mile through the wood . In Sweden ’s olden 24-hour interval , as spring arrived , oxen and goats move from low - lying villages to little mountain farm , called shielings , where there was unspoiled graze . woman and girls went with them , staying at their village ’s shieling until twilight , milking , churn butter and making cheese . Each day two women drive their village ’s animals out to range and stayed nearby to protect them from bears , wolves and thieves . They communicated with their animals and with the cleaning lady back at their shieling with loud cries that echoed down the versant . Kulning is now a reemerging folk skill in modern SwedenThere are more coolheaded ways to call moo-cow , like in this verse form , “ The gamy Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire ” write by a lady named Jean Ingelow in the mid-1800s :
“ Cusha ! Cusha ! Cusha ! ” calling , For the dew will soone be falling;Leave your meadow grasses mellow , mellow , mellow;Quit your cowslips , cowslips yellow;Come uppe , Whitefoot , come uppe , Lightfoot;Quit the stalks of Petroselinum crispum hollow , hollow , hollow;Come uppe , Jetty , rise and be , From the trefoil lift your head;Come uppe , Whitefoot , amount uppe , Lightfoot , Come uppe , Jetty , rise and follow , Jetty , to the milking shed . ”
A humans named H. Carrington Bolton referred to her poem in an article he wrote in “ The Language Used in Addressing Cattle ” put out inThe American Anthropologistmagazine in April 1897 .
Jean Ingelow ’s familiar line embody a call to cattle in the fields rife in Scotland ; it is also obtained in Lincolnshire as early as 1571 . It is sometimes used in combination ascushy - cow . It is find in England ascushie , and in Ulster County , New York , ascush(pronounced koosh ) . Philologists incur the root of this word in the Icelandickusa , kussa , andkusla … Another Scotch call is recorded by Jamieson : hove , used in calling a moo-cow to be milked , sometimes ashove - leddy ; anciently in the Lothians this wasprrutchyandprutch - leddy .
The calls reported from different States of the Union are equally diverse . In Connecticut I have heardsake , sake(as in cake ) ; in New Jersey , Maryland , Iowa , and elsewhere this take the form ofsook , sook , sookey ; in Virginia and Alabama it becomessookow , sookow ; in central Illinois it is sook - snowy ; in Maine the call iskoeb ; in Virginiacoo(Scottish for cow ) ; in Alabamaco - boys(come boys ) … A vulgar call in Connecticut isboss , party boss , get along boss ; also bowdlerize toco - boss . This is also report from Michigan and Vermont .
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