LAZA ENTROIDO

Click HERE to watch a video about this famous Carnival and then answer the following questions :

- Carnival takes place before................(Christian season of fasting)

-What are these days about?

- Peliqueiros run through the streets doing what?

- What is the origin of peliqueiros?

- Peliqueiros go from house to house doing what?

- What do townspeople burn?

- What does everybody arm themselves with during the "farrapada"?

- What is the Morena’s job?

- What do you need for the next battle?

- Do we know much about the origins of Laza traditions?

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KEY
- Lent -Partying- Whipping people- 16th century tax collectors- Eating and drinking people’s food- Hay and wood (to symbolize purification)- Muddy rags- To lift up women’s skirts with his horns- Dirt and ants- Their origins are obscure and predate Christianity