Toro embolado
A toro embolado (in Spanish), bou embolat (in
local festivals. In the 21st century animal welfare activists have attempted to stop this practice as cruel.[1]
Background
The animal is usually tied to a post and then teams of people prevent it from moving while a wooden frame with two spikes with balls of flammable material is attached to its horns. These are then set alight and the rope is cut. Sometimes fireworks are attached too, which then go off shortly afterwards. There is usually a barricade separating the bull from the spectators.
A somewhat similar activity is the toro de fuego, in which the live bull is replaced by a bull-shaped metal frame (held by a runner) which is set alight.[2]
Easter Sunday since 1976, where two bulls are let loose in the city. In 2019 a 74-year-old man was gored to death.[3]
See also
References
- ^ League Against Cruel Sports (5 August 2010). "We've come a long way, baby ..." Archived from the original on 9 November 2010.
- ^ "Playing with Fire". Running of the Bulls. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
- ^ Dollimore, Laurence (30 April 2019). "Pensioner, 74, gored to death during bull running festival in Spain's Andalucia". Olive Press expat newspaper, Spain.
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