March 2021 - Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

FYI: I'll put up the daily posts between 6 and 8pm, CET, each day. The exact posting time might vary due to RL issues. My apologies.

Comments

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I presume these games trace their lineage back to the bronze age games?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Err... no. According to some website or other (sorry, I forgot what the actual source was):

The games began as simple farm games when farm workers and animals enjoyed teasing and fighting with the bulls. The oldest written record of a bull game in Arles dates from 1402, when a race was organized in honor of Louis II, Count of Provence. Later, at the end of the 19th century, the game became less cruel and it was only men who “played” with the bulls : objects (flowers, scarves, red-white-and-blue ribbons, cocardes displaying the ranch colors) were attached to the bull’s horns to be snatched by young amateurs.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's interesting. I thought all European games like that had their roots in antiquity — obviously bulls just bring that out in agriculturally minded folk!