Mosquito Hawk

Japanese: mosquito hawk(英語表記)mosquitohawk
Mosquito Hawk

...Parents sometimes say this to scare their young children. In North America, dragonflies are sometimes called mosquito hawks, which is easy for Japanese people to understand, but they also have a strange nickname, snake doctor, which is based on the superstition that dragonflies warn snakes when they are in danger.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mosquito hawk" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…親がそういって小さい子を脅すことがあった。北アメリカではmosquito hawk(〈蚊取り鷹〉の意)と呼ぶことがあり,これは日本人にも理解しやすいが,snake doctor(〈蛇の先生〉あるいは〈蛇の医者〉の意)という奇異な別名もある。蛇に危険が近づくとトンボがそれを蛇に知らせてやるという迷信に基づく。…

※「mosquito hawk」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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