1/3/2024 0 Comments Ancient cricket sounds![]() Cricket fighting continues to this day, and thankfully it’s no longer a lethal sport.ĭecorative brass cricket boxes are a nod to the early days of cricket keeping when royal Chinese women captured and kept crickets in golden cages. Crickets were kept and cared for like tiny athletes. By the 12th century, cricket fighting also started happening. ![]() Crickets were enjoyed for their song and thought to bring good luck. Per Wikipedia, the oldest cricket-keeping artifact dates to 960 A.D. To understand the idea of a cricket as a pet, you need to start back in ancient China. You may have seen crickets at pet stores, but they are not generally sold as pets. It’s a cricket box, a place to keep your pet cricket. Millions today seem to think that it is luckier to have a cricket on their plate than on the hearth.In your antiquing travel, you may have seen a small decorative hinged brass box, perforated with small holes. People in Asia seem to love them.Īn increasing number of people in the West are also getting into eating insects. More and more people have become aware of the nutrition side of the matter. Lately it seems that they are returning to the kitchen. Eating CricketsĬrickets have throughout history been a lucky insect to have in the kitchen. This was a warning that someone was approaching that did not belong to the household. The sudden silence would wake up the family members. If a stranger came to the house during the night the crickets stopped singing. The crickets knew its human family and friends. Their load singing was a sign that all was safe and good. These insects did a wonderful job as “watch dogs”. In China it was quite common to keep crickets in small cages. Apollo was the god of music, fortune telling, the sun and healing. In ancient Greece the cricket was sacred to Apollo. ![]() They may produce their “music” for hours and hours. The male credits do this for love to attract female crickets. When the left forewing is rubbed against the right forewing they produce the famous and well-known chirp. The left forewing has lots of “teeth”, sort of like a comb. It is only the male crickets who continuously produce the enjoyable chirp by rubbing their wings together. Having a cricket in the kitchen or near the hearth is especially lucky and is said to bring good fortune to the home. ![]() ![]() Some still insist wearing a cricket amulet or charm will increase the attraction of wealth. It was believed in many places in Europe that the cricket brought with it a promise of good fortune and riches coming to the family. In many countries around the world the cricket is a symbol of wealth and good luck. In scene IV of his play Henry IV Prince Henry asks Poins “Shall we be merry?” Poins answers “As merry as crickets, my lad.” Wealth and Good Fortune William Shakespeare was familiar with crickets being associated with happiness. In fact many say that the gods or God sent us the cricket to remind us to be happy. The cheerful chirp does magical wonders on humans making them in a happy mood. This may be because it is believe that crickets made us happy. They certainly have been a symbol of luck and are still loved by many. Crickets seem to be an almost forgotten good luck symbol. ![]()
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