As the seasonal signal in Japan, this dragonfly is associated with the season. More broadly, dragonflies are symbols of bravery, power, and spirit, and they frequently appear in art and literature, particularly haiku. Japanese kids make huge dragonflies as part of their play, using cloth with a tiny pebble tied to each point, which they then put into the atmosphere. This dragonfly mistakes the pebbles for animals, becomes tangled in the fabric, and is tangled to the surface by the weight. In the EU, dragonflies have frequently been seen as evil. Some common families in English, such as "horse-stingers," "Satan's darning needles," and "attention cutters," associate them with sinister or loss. Swedish lore holds that the demon employs dragonflies to measure people's souls. :25–27 The Norse family for dragonflies constitutes yenstikker ("eye-poker"), and in Portugal, they are sometimes named tira-olhos ("eye-snatcher"). They are frequently related to serpents, as in the European family gwas-y-neidr, "adder's servant."


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