Macrale
The macrale is a word of origin Wallon passed in the French of Belgium and indicating a species of Sorcière.
She is responsible for goods of the evils, such as the arrival of the winter.
It is besides for this reason that one burns his effigy at the time of large celebrated fires Ci and there at the end of the winter.
This practice is not without recalling to rough-hew it which had to undergo the heretics so called wizard and witch during the last centuries.
Integral part of the Walloon folklore, it is not rare to see ravelling brotherhoods of macrales at the time, for example, of the festivals of August 15th in Outremeuse (Liege).
One of its characteristics is the possibility of transforming itself into dog with chains.
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