Some echoes of a Danube Banate stinger “Fly”, between history, legend and entomology

Abstract

On the basis of an unitary choice of documentary data resulting from historical sources, interpretation of legendary local elements and entomological works, this paper proposes an examination of the luck, both regional and foreign, of an economic, medical and human scourge who still hurted, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the Romanian context: invasions of the “Golubacz fly”.

Keywords

• Golubacz fly
• Iovan Iorgovan
• Danubian folklore
• entomology
• Medical history
• travellers