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" aricastaña M" is a proverbial character, a symbol of an age remote. It employs "Maricastaña times," "In times of Maricastaña", "Ser Maricastaña time, they all come quoted in the Dictionary of the English Royal Academy.

Cervantes in his novel thought misleading quoted this expression with a curious addition: "Body of me," replied the lawyer, and we have been back time maricastaña when talking pumpkins or Aesop's when the cock was chatting with a fox and other animals. " In the book so interesting and fun to Godoy Alcántara, Test etymological and historical-philosophical on Castilian surname, said: "This Maricastaña, whose name I think brown female, was in the fourteenth century with her husband and two brothers in front of Lugo popular party that resisted the payment of tributes to the bishop, as lord, imposed; resistance to excesses and violence were not wanting to kill the steward of the bishop. The renown of female as male due to spread through the region and it is unlikely to be the same that has taken virago representation in ancient times. At least not in recorded history Maricastaña other most famous and not so much. " There are other proverbial expressions that have an identical meaning: "In times of Doña Urraca", "King Perico", "the king which raged for porridge," in question "or" King Wamba. " Of these the most notorious is "the king raged," which was very fond of Quevedo, which output on the visit of the jokes and the Shadows appetizer.

modern disclosure of this idiom is due to the zarzuela The king raged, with music by Ruperto Chapi and lyrics by Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza was premiered in Madrid on April 20, 1891. The master belt, where vocabulary of sayings, including the picturesque said: "The king had raged and the mantle drag.

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Alfredo Erias . 'A Princesiña of Ourense.

The well-known expression Maricastaña times has been for centuries in the popular imagination with the sense of time lost in the mists of memory. Maricastaña or Mary Chestnut could be due to a real character, a heroine of the fourteenth century Galician, Revuelta cabecilla of a popular church for them against the unfair taxes that a feudal lord, he Obispo from Lugo Fray Pedro López Aguilar, charged through and su mayordomo Recaudador what Maria Brown and family dieron su muerte. This story Basa in a document about a donation recogida in the work Spain Sagrada Padre Risk " In file Episcopal, in Volume I of scrolls, is an instrument of recognition and satisfaction, because on June 18, 1386, where Mary Brown, wife of Martin Blind, Gonzalo and Alfonso Blind Blind, say that many injuries did the church of Lugo and killed Francisco Fernandes, Bishop Butler. To the satisfaction of the cathedral deliuctos donated all they had in Heredades couto of Creisa and to pay a thousand obrigáronse Maravedis currency usual, vowing that they would not hardly ever, but help from that on the recaudo church and the bishop. "

But besides heroin, Mary Brown is primarily a legendary personaje recogida it appears that Dictionary of mythical beings Galician as an equivalent to Blancafor mujer, hija the youngest of the three that Tuvo Diablo him. has also been compared with Celtic myths of origin: he of Auburn Mary (which means "Mary of color castaño"), la protagonista de un relato irlandés, "La batalla de los pájaros" o incluso con una narradora de la Corte de Carlos II que murió en su peregrinaje a Santiago.