no it ain't a fiddler but someone's on your roof America
fiction
edward w pritchard
An ancient greeting in the pre-historic early proto-city of Catal Hoyuk was "may your roof be free of visitors".
Speculation by scholars indicates that the feared visitors in the ancient warning may be the Devil, provocateurs searching for a pretty woman to tempt and steal, or foreign spies and enemy agents looking for intelligence. Common usage sometimes refers to fears of ancient "gypsies" or homesteaders looking to claim property by adverse possession.
Marc Chegal's mischievous fiddler on the roof in many of his paintings is probably an ancient folk memory of the fears of intruders and other visitors or invaders experienced by inhabitants of permanent Cities such as Catal Hoyuk in ancient Turkey.
Today with xenophobia rampant in America over fears of terrorism the old phobia of someone squatting on your roof may return disrupting the American Dream. No it ain't no fiddler but someone's on your roof America.
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