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Entroido de Xinxo de Limia - Screens |
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the masks of the limiano entroido one, constituting the symbol of more
important popular manifestation, with marked roots celtas according to
Fernandez Novoa, where its religious, judicial and social power is
left manifesto: in the mask of the screen (the monk); in
the whip and vejigas swollen (the judicial one) and in the function to
order the celebration (the social one); being one of the little
rural masks that perviven in the Europe of the new millenium.
Their exit to the streets in these celebrations gets to add
hundreds of them, which is ritual and traditional. Long white
trousers, white shirt, black shoes, black legginses with red tapes to
tie them to the legs, red layer of silk with fitas of different
colors, white pañueleta to the neck, belt with bells and bells, dry
two gloves and one or vejigas in the hands. In the head, “ the screen “ itself, the one that name gives
him to the set and that is made artisan with hard cardboard, newspaper
papers and feltro of a classic hat; it is used tail, flour and
tempered water to stick and to mold the face; this one has
appearance of incarnated demon, with amiable gesture; from the
back part of the head it leaves a species to him horn where astral
symbols are drawn, animals, shields. Behind agreeing with the
nape of the neck, a fabric is hung to him, and ahead it takes to a
species of long flecos of color generally dorada.Si when “the screens” percorren the streets find which
they know and it is not disguised, persecute it and they force to pay
wines to him, then “the Screen” discovers the
face to occur to know, and thus to speak of the celebration. + panoramas of the Region of Verín |
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