Toro of fuego

The toro of fuego (of the Spanish : bull of fire) or toro embolado is a pyrotechnical spectacle parodying the bullfight, very popular in the Spanish village f4etes.

Presentation

The spectacle puts in scene either an alive bull, or a man who replaces it.

It acts in the beginning of a bull to the horns of which one attaches balls of flammable products, that one lights the fallen night. The bull, thus released during one hour in the streets of the city, must be dodged by the festival ones.

Before the beginning of the spectacle, the animal is attached and firmly controlled by a whole team while one fixes to him on the horns a framework of wood provided with two iron pivots carrying of the impregnated balls of hemp of pitch, resin or terpentine. These last are lit and twists it crossed. Fireworks are sometimes added and leave at the beginning the race.

During last years, the defenders of the rights of the animals tried to make abolish this practice. The bull is more and more often replaced by a bomb disposal expert of solid constitution, bearing on its back a bull of wood or papier-m4ach3e held by a metal reinforcement. The false horns carry the same system of flammable balls and fireworks. The bomb disposal expert runs thus equipped in the middle of crowd, parodying the bullfight.

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