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ANNUAL HOLIDAY CYCLE IN THE UPPER ARAGON

By Jose Antonio CAST and Celedonio ADELL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA

Nowadays the carnival celebration does not save the temporary rigor of the past. Ash Wednesday put the final touch to the carnival with the burial of the sardine. In some places the first Sunday of Lent, known as Piñata Sunday, could be considered as a continuation of the Carnival.

Pyrenees

The Carnival had its very different from the plain and ancient rituals, as discussed below.

Anso and Echo Valleys

With the Civil War was lost Carnival Ansó . It started the so-called Carnival Sunday and lasts until Ash Wednesday. The first event was the round of Carnival. The waiters dressed Espedido roamed the houses and baskets (folded). Collected lean bacon, eggs ... in addition to the typical cakes made for these days bumps. The round was carried out by fifths, accompanied by accordionist Bini, and everything collected is organized snacks every day of Carnival.

Among typical masks or costumes, but also beyond the Pyrenees, were "or Toledo, a kind of bull horns chasing everyone and especially for girls; "Or Planted, two men carrying a" chub "(yoke), another holding the fourth seeding implements and ashes and throwing it to anyone who was at their scope and" as Mortalla "which came out at night and were dressed a white sheet and playing a esquileta to scare people. Other costumes were the "Onso", based on animal skins and face masque, the "Marica", a man dressed as a woman or vice versa, and pastors.

In Echo matched to the Carnival festivities. In the four days was sheared with costumes and horns, dinner, pray and dance. In Urdu through the streets with a sack of ashes, dressed and Esquillan, causing people to flee. In Siresa cowbells and wearing thick "or Sowing" threw ash.

About this valley in Puerto Aragüés of young people also drew bells and cowbells and through the villages nearby. At present, the lads will give charivaris Aragüés to Jasa.

In the latter population, the "Burial of the Sardine", was organized a procession to the outskirts of town, opened a hole and buried there sardines, which previously were shot. Crumbs and meat to the pastor, or grilled, it was the usual menus these days.

Channel Berdún

In Berdún dressing and carrying bells producing a thunderous sound. The costume were called "ragged."

In Bailo were collected, by the house of the population and the pardinas now abandoned, "chulla" that pierced the Espedido, and all kinds of sausages with which organized a delicious snack.

Old Aragon

Shrove Tuesday, as he relates Violant i Simorra, they made "a giant called peirote, who was paraded through the village in the arms of the girls." One of the typical costumes this population and other upcoming dress was covered with empty snail shells, sewn into the fabric.

The Carnival festivities were as animated as the employer. They spent several days of fun, dressing up, organizing dances and snacks with food that is collected by the house. In Botaya used to be the girls who were dressed in coats and skirts old and french fries prepared pans with eggs after the dance.
In Castiello de Jaca costumes were used in ancient costumes grandmothers. In Aratores the burial of the sardine through the streets of the town with the "puppet" as protagonist.
In Villanúa, at the funeral sardine, were spent numerous jokes. He once donned a disguise a blood sausage in the neck and cut with a knife to believe that they had cut the neck and to a lot of blood flowed.

In Canfranc this peirote or bubbler was called "Perico", being burned on Tuesday in an empty.

Jacetano Carnival had a more urban character. Today it has recovered, with parades, children's party, parade of floats and burial of the sardine. Should be considered especially Carnival organized in the ski resorts nearby.

. The Serrablo

Sabiñánigo in 1985 regained the Carnival, which also have its festive side the cultural side, with lectures, workshops masks, exhibitions and so on. The significant character of this festival is the "king taunts, which participates in the parade and at the end, after the trial, the statement executes.

These days the typical crespillos were tasted and drank quemadillo. Costume parties are organized and on Sunday "Piñata dance, which auctioned a magnificent" toya ".

Acumuer In constructing a peirote was paraded through the streets on a "esturrazo" dragged ox. At the end was shot. Also in the puppet got a bottle full of milk, she placed a hollow willow branch and, when squeezed, pulled the liquid that stained with the people.

Borrés he walked in on a donkey and the end was burned. In Larrés the doll was also taken in the round.

Escartín met in separate boys and girls. Then closed all masked and was made the round, picking up meat for a snack stop.

criticisms were made in Biescas on issues of local life. In Sobremonte Aso is masquerade and crespillos ate dessert typical of this conference.

Panticosa In , as in Biescas, has recovered the celebration of Carnival. The puppet would be burned by the panticutos "or Pedro de Carnaval", which was carried on the shoulders of the streets, sang and gave him drink, holding a buttons in the gut that changed when filled with wine. It was in the forties when the boys built the last "o Pedro de Carnaval", which hit five shots and burned the last day.

Bielsa valleys and Chistau

Carnival is where we find more rooted in the province, which is not allowed to hold and despite the prohibitions of the Franco regime.

Bielsa Carnival 2008 (Photo: Francisco Calvo Sánchez)

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Bielsa In the "tranga" will find the music accompanied the "madams." The square dance features numerous characters: "Garret", "amontato", "onso" ...

The "tranga" aimed at children, hit the ground, they lift their skirts for the girls and so forth. In the plaza inviting peach cake and wine. The last day burns "Carnival", which has been hung on the facade of the Town Hall.

Carnival of

Gistaín, Plan and San Juan de Plan alternate, currently in different Sundays to allow greater participation and even greater incentive for visitors.

In San Juan de Plan is prepared "muyén" or peirote by the stewards, that night hanging on the balcony of City Hall. At noon on Saturday will pick up and mounted on a donkey, to that line. Starts the round by the town's streets, eating and drinking in every house and collecting meats in baskets which are then consumed in different teas and dinners. Once the round ended, five stewards go to look at five "madams" and organized a parade, to be followed by dancing. The last day is burned "muyén."

Carnival Violant Gistaín was described by saying that i Simorra young people dressed as "muyens" and "madams" daubs them and they with the finery and best tape they found. Dancing with a handkerchief he beat the dancer or dancer and, after some pieces, was discovered face. Piñata Sunday the peirote, who had chaired most of the acts, was hung on a roof overhang. After a discussion prepared two shots hit him and burned.

In Plan, at dawn on Sunday Piñata, cows were milked for dinner that night.

. Traveling carnivals

In the municipality of La Fueva developing since 1984 the traveling carnival. It comes down to a day, which does not stop for a minute. At ten o'clock the procession formed by numerous cars and people dressed up, some of Tierrantona. Populations are crossed seventeen orchestra. It includes sausage, potatoes, eggs, and ends at night with a dinner at Tierrantona, followed by a popular festival.

is eaten at noon in Buetas, take the Solipueyo dessert and coffee and drink in Rañin. It Fosado snack. Moreover, chocolate has been given out in Tierrantona. Other stops are in Troncedo (tapas). Formigales (desserts), Palo (sardines), Smoke (Chirete) Morillo (vermouth), loggerhead (desserts), Samper (almond paste), Charo (punch), etc..

Formerly the "carazons" was the name given to the costumed waiters roamed the villages of Toledo Creme singing and cracking jokes.

Pueyo de Aragua in the two men and two women walked the streets dressed up, being treated to various dishes that collected in a basket. Despite the prohibitions of the Franco years also continued to hold the Carnival in Los Molinos, Oncins, The Plano, La Muela and St Victorian. Shrove Tuesday was engaged to a famous prowler and the waiters roamed the villages with him, being invited in all of them. By late afternoon they met at a time to consume many snacks they had prepared the ladies and join the dance.

Posted in Notebooks Huesca, a supplement of the Journal Altoaragón . Sunday February 28, 1993

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HOLIDAY ANNUAL CYCLE IN THE UPPER ARAGON

ADELL By Jose Antonio GARCIA RODRIGUEZ Celedonio CAST and

carnival in the mountain was different from the plain. In the mountains there was great respect for tradition, how he had always celebrated the holiday. In the plain, however, new elements were introduced or suppressed events from one year to another. In Carnival mountain was the feast of feasts, the plain was a celebration more.

The Sobrarbe

"What good is
the holy name of Carnival,
all
eat and drink and do no evil"
(Copla of Fanlo)

already

We discuss some of the carnivals of this region (Bielsa, Valle de Chistau, La Fueva, Pueyo de Araguás ...). Some populations have recovered in recent years the carnival tradition. This is the case Nerín, reducing its holding to the day on Saturday but has the presence of some of their former neighbors. In

Fanlo Carnival Sunday the boys were dressed and went through the houses to make a collection. With wine, potatoes, sausage, eggs and other products on Tuesday carried out a snack. The party continued Sunday piñata.

In Torla a waiter dressed in animal skins, hides and well masked, carrying a shearing and a stick. They said it looked like the devil. Shrove Tuesday, after having committed various atrocities, was arrested and tried and eventually sentenced to death in a symbolic way. This person chairing all acts and descriptions given to us should resemble the "tranga" Bielsa, the "momtxorros" Alsasua or "zanpantzar" of Ituren-Zubieta.

In the peirote Broto was led by two young men to a waterfall where he fired two shots.
In Laspuña also had costumes and jokes. The boys climbed on the roof and blackened flour with oil or ash for strollers. On Tuesday he also made an impressive round in which several mules pulling a estirazo, in which people deposited various foods, which then consume at a dinner followed by lively dance.

In Arcusa two boys dressed as gypsy marriage. The woman pretended to be pregnant. Bought a donkey, made up of two characters covered with a blanket. After buying it climbed and pulled him down. At that moment undid the deal. Upskirt, a year, a boy put his wineskin. This representation was developed in the square or street in the town.

High Ribagorza

In Eriste, "John Gerunio" doll stuffed with straw and covered with old clothes, was the star of the raids of the boys during this conference. He walked to the back of a donkey through the streets of the town and on Tuesday was being tried for his deeds and burned at the stake.

peirote In Sahún also walked the back of a donkey. A simulated doctor prescribed to those who complained to heal some funny formula.

Vilanova unfolded Tuesday boys round, which ended with a "lifara." Among the favorite jokes to hide were the women's clothes when they went to wash, get dressed at home, relocate, field implements and so forth. Castejon de Sos In the girls threw flour and ashes to the waiters. On Sunday, all dressed up (young and married), had orchestra and built a straw man who placed atop a donkey adorned with bells and ribbons. Iban the houses, pushing up the ass down the stairs, dancing and singing in every place visited.

In Bisaurri the burial of the sardine was a play, beginning with the arrest of "carnival", which was taken to the square where trial was made popular. A young man disguised as a priest until you beat the puppet speak. The responses are given another boy hidden in a nearby house, who spoke behind the bars of a window. Peirote was finally convicted. He placed the rope around his neck and was executed with two shots. Then the "dead carnival" was born with torches through the streets, with the sobs of those present.

One year the pastor wanted to ban the carnival and even fining the governor intervened he had performed the role of priest and fifty dollars. The fine was split between all four young men who played hard and, apparently, one that only got two. Then the people sang:

"Four
drives are safe and are not yours, nor mine,
four dollars are safe,
not know who they are. "

Country survives in the party. six are appointed stewards. Before they are blackened with soot from chimneys , but now employs only whiteners, like the "zarramusqueros" of Cintruénigo (Navarra).

Laspaúles children dressed in a mule walk the streets picking up meat for a snack then organize.

on the slopes Cerler ski also take place so-called "white carnival.

Baja Ribagorza

in La Puebla de Castro youth were dressed in black cloaks and penetrated by the houses that were open, trying not to be seen, to seize any food or spend a joke to the owners. In

Caladrones are still some elements of Carnival. The round passed through the streets and were out the jug.

At the end of the dance comes and then dinner. Formerly the young men with burning hemp stalks annoy the girls placing it under his legs. They responded by wiping these stems near the neck.

Cisco had fire in the square in costumes and lifaras Entenza. In Torres del Obispo were of two donkeys and matching to make styling, while that driving threw the ashes to passersby on the street.

Hopper's puppet was in court, assisting the priest (with basement and two tortetas making glasses), a lawyer and the prosecutor. In Luzas a peculiar character was the "Lady Evil", boy disguised in a sheepskin, horns and three or four candles on his shoulders, walking on all fours.

Benabarre Graus and have recovered their carnivals on two levels: school and adults.

Somontano

Colungo organizes since 1993 the "Carnival of Vero, participating in various towns in the region, so rotational that are home to the acts of each year. In the puppet is Colungo called "Prin." Shrove Tuesday was on a ladder in horizontal position, carried by two servants. He was paraded through the streets singing a dirge. They placed candles on both sides of the ladder and eventually burned. In

Buera King of Carnival was "Cupid", participated in the round riding a donkey.

state on "Mr. Prudencio" peculiar character of the population in those years, he built a straw man who dressed elegantly and from Carnival Sunday until Tuesday was going to be the "Representative Gutierrez." It was a way of ridiculing the political class in the years of tourism, in which the "diputao Gutierrez" represented the chief or representative of the oligarchy that ruled the country. Barbastro

organized a carnival city, very different from that of the beginning of the century, ending on Ash Wednesday with the burial of the sardine in the chapel of the Virgen del Plano.

La Hoya and Los Monegros

carnival in the capital began on Thursday renderer, known here as the day of the "sausage." In 1910, a columnist wrote that "the Shrove Thursday unnoticed ... The inclement weather contributed to the sausage day pass without us realizing it" (1). The streets are bustling again with the masks and carnivals. Dances beginning of the century took place in society grief and Galante, while the Society's Mask organized at the Teatro Principal. In 1910, masked balls were held in the Circle of Huesca. In 1905 the most distinguished families of the city opened its rooms to hold parties during those days. The festivities were completed on Sunday piñata with masks and dances.

Ayers also were excellent in carnivals, as he writes a correspondent for a regional newspaper in 1910, citing the crisis of that year: "Those endless parades of masks, which once ran through our streets, to the delight of neighbors his cheerful talk and lively dances, formed at intervals to the beat of a guitar, this year we have not known "(2).

In Sariñena the first day of Carnival is celebrated popular fair already mentioned Madoz (3), saying attended by more than 18,000 head of horses.

in Castejon de Monegros, in the burial of the sardine, married that year should pay for the wine. botos burned oil for lighting and a mule, a cross hanging sardines, roamed the streets of the town drinking wine and complaining about the end of Carnival.

Litter and Middle Cinca
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"Muscaruta, tuta,
granota face,
when you die, bad carota
spheres.
(Copla of Tamarite)

Albelda ate In these days the "casola" and "Uncle Sopes", star of Carnival , had in the laundry. The local rondalla has recovered a dance in which cloak the uncle Sopes.

In Esplús married women wore a white suit with "meriñaque" and "bowling", under which put several pairs of skirts and decorated their heads with a straw hat decorated with ribbons and flowers. went about singing and spreading to all your fun.

dances were organized in Binéfar in La Palma on Carnival Sunday and the Piñata. In

Pomar bubblers were a married child included, who were in a car, and the last day burned.

In Monsoon, with the collaboration of the "pubs" are organized different events, among which the parade of parades.

Cinca Albalate appeared in the "Squillace", dressed in black and masked, who roamed the streets of the village and the one who caught him a lock of hair cut. In

Fraga Saturday evening raffle proceeds to Bacon, an event organized by the Brotherhood of St Anton. On Wednesday there is chocolate and sardines and, finally, proceed to the burning of the "ninots." Something similar happens in Torrente, where "ninots" are placed in one of the streets and allowed to lunch and dinner, also being destroyed on Ash Wednesday.

We are left, finally, to refer to the "School Carnival" which organized by schools or resource centers, in the case of rural schools, encouraging every year our schools have an important aspect: the illusion of all children for this celebration. Citation

1. Heraldo de Aragón , February 5, 1910.
2. Heraldo de Aragón , February 9, 1910.
3. MADOZ, P.: Gazetteer, Statistics, History . 1845-1850. Huesca. Facsimile Ed. Valladolid, DGA., 1986. p. 310.

Posted in Notebooks Huesca, a supplement of the Journal Altoaragón . Sunday March 7, 1993

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