Anmalfrosh (Arbëresh ferocious being)

Anmalfrosh

Italo-Albanian (Calabria/Sicily) ferocious being from Ital.

Description

Italo-Albanian (Calabria/Sicily) ferocious being from Ital. animale feroce (Elsie 2001 s.v. Anmalfrosh). A real Arbëresh Dictionary entry whose name is the loan ‘wild beast’; the entry carries no narrative cycle.

Motifs

arberesh loan monster
italiano animale feroce
calabria sicily only
not pan albanian

Lead story

Across the water the name is half Italian: anmalfrosh — animale feroce, the fierce beast said in Arbëresh mouths of Calabria and Sicily. Elsie keeps the loan. No mainland cycle rides with it. Treat as diaspora vocabulary, not a second national dragon.

Aliases

anmalfrosh

Region

Arbëresh Calabria / Sicily (loan-name entry)

Relations

Kulshedranot the same as
Stihi (storm–treasure demoness)near