Lamb

The lamb is a very young person Mouton, it is small ewe and ram. It is an animal of breeding.

A lamb female is a ewe-lamb . The lamb is born at the time of the lambing , the Mise low by the ewe. The young sheep, when it is a little older, bears the name of teg then (E) .

The word Agnel is an old form of the word lamb which indicates a coin now.

Lamb in breeding

In the case of the races bouchères, like in the case of the Blue of Maine, the lamb must have a good conformation and a good speed of growth.

Lamb in kitchen

The lamb also indicates the very tender meat of the lamb.

See also: Meat of lamb

Mystical lamb

The lamb is present in several religions as an animal without defense par excellence, soft and flexible.
Des black lambs was sacrificed to the Greek Divinités of the winds to secure a good naviguation.
Dans the great modern religions, the lamb is sacrificed to God. For the significance of this act, to see the article Violence and Religions.

Thus, in the Islam, a lamb is cut the throat of with the festivals of the Aïd.

The lamb is a pure animal (to hide) being able to be eaten in the Jewish religion.

In the Christian religion, one finds the lamb in the medieval Bestiaire but also in:

  • the Lamb of God , whom one finds in the Évangile according to Jean indicates Jesus,
  • the lamb of Easter (or Paschal lamb ) which is the emblem of the corporations of clothiers. One also finds it in Héraldique in the blazon of several cities (Grasse, Rouen…)

Lamb in the history

In 1667, Jean Baptist Denis, a very famous French doctor at the time, personal doctor of Louis XIV, is the first to inject the blood of an animal to a man. It injects the blood of a young lamb to a man reached of Typhus (Gastro-entérite mortal at that time). The man dies, shortly after what proves to be the first blood Transfusion. The same year, Denis and his Emmeretz fellow-member carried out the first transfusion of man with man by connecting the artery of one of the subjects to the vein of the other.

Lamb in the economy

Skin of lamb

The Peau of the lamb is used for manufacture:
  • of a fine Leather being useful in particular for the Glove factory,
  • of the Parchment to the Middle Ages,
  • of skins of drum,
  • of the Astrakhan, a buckled fur of young lambs Karakul which forwarded at the origin by the town of Astrakhan (with a H) in Russia. The request for this product leads the stockbreeders to kill the lambs as of the birth, whereas it is known as that it does not come solely from animals still-born children.

Hair of lamb

  • the felt of the Chapelier S is made in particular with hair of lamb, still called Laine lamb's-wool.

Lambs in the culture

  • Toudoux the lamb (Gentle Heart Lamb) is a cousin of the Bisounours.
  • In a legend around the peak of the Tooth of the Cat, a lamb is used as Appât to track a cat terrorizing the travellers.
  • the lamb is found at the side of the wolf in the fables of Ésope (known as Isopet with the Middle Ages).

Lamb in the expressions

  • Soft like a lamb
  • To call somebody My lamb , it is him to announce true or simulated tenderness.

References

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