Murcia, where men live off worms instead of vice versa

Silk as a wishful metaphor for Spain.

We're good friends, actually.

We're good friends, actually. Image: British Library / WP Commons.

Jerónimo de Alcalá, El donado hablador, vida y aventuras de Alonso, mozo de muchos amos (1624):

[A]cuérdome que el año de 1588, en que todos los astrólogos pronosticáron grandes desdichas á nuestra España, un poeta de Murcia, burlándose de todos los judicarios y pronósticos de aquel tiempo, hizo una quintillas en que fué contrapunteando sus falsas profecías; y entre los versos que compuso fué esta quintilla:

Gusanos han de comer
Los cuerpos tristes humanos:
En Murcia no, que ha de ser
Al reves, que han de comer
Los hombres de los gusanos.

Murcia is, apart from Vigo and La Coruña, the ugliest city in Spain, so reversing the natural order of things didn’t do them much good, even in the long run. Kind of relevant: if you’re cremated, is there still some kind of worm to be found that will eat your ash?

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Jerónimo de Alcalá (1): Jerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Rivera was a Spanish physician and writer.

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Spanish Armada (2): The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from La Coruña in early summer 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.


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