BtZ42/10 The color red

[János Széky]

Sorry, the sixth:
- "One Red Indian with one buffalo"(68V).

2016-05-23 22:09 GMT+02:00 János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>:

> Five uses in this section (that I can count):
> - Red (Malcolm X), 63V
> - Red Devil lye (sodium hydroxide), 67V
> - Red River Valley (68V)
> - Reds (who "want to take it all away (68V)
> - Toro Rojo (69V)
>
> As for the latter: both the Marvel Comic figure El Toro Rojo and the
> energy drink (from Southeast Asia -> Austria) came much later. But: for a
> long time I understood the line "Mad bull lost its way' in Gimme Shelter
> (1969) as "Red Bull lost its way". Maybe because there's the color red in
> the previous line ("Burns like a red coal carpet"). Is there any
> significance of Red Bull in Mexican folklore?
>
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