The Belfans Fly Repellent Fan
Say good-bye to that basket full of bug spray and citronella
The idea that if you flick a hand or something whippy in the general direction of a fly or wasp, it will think better of trying to land on you or your food is not the most complicated proposition. Yet the history of the flyswatter is richer than some might think.
Wikipedia tells us—pause to imagine who actually posts these entries—that a flyswatter “is frequently seen as an attribute of Hindu, Jain, Daoist and Buddhist deities,” while in eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent, swatters are made from the tail hairs of a yak. The Yakut people (no relation) of Siberia use horsehair flyswatters for shamanistic rituals, and some modern African leaders have carried them as a mark of authority.
