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Ramos at the door of a house and to fund the town church where you place the primwero and largest branch, dedicated to the Virgin. ----------------------------------------------
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The booths, accompanied by rounds, constitute one of the festive celebrations in many towns of Castile and Leon, some also coming to Benavente. Often in place or held, depending on location, on Palm Sunday, for Easter and during the month of May, especially on the first day, coinciding with the custom of placing the tree in May, and sing and dance around. Consists of placing branches of trees of various species to the doors or windows of the houses they inhabit unmarried girls and, preferably, overnight and while sleeping.
The branch could be a sign of love and warning to everyone that this girl already had her servant, "Who has cut the branch of the mall?. I have cut him a groom of the Bank," says a verse.
In some villages also put branches to the Virgin as Queen of May, at the door of the church and sometimes on the roof or on the same tower.
tradition is curious about the different tree species used, as each had and has a special symbolism, that people retain and remember in the form of couplets, some more positive than others, but all are supported by custom. "Alamo, I love you. /
Espino or pine, I believe you.
Peral, I love you more. /
Poplar, I love you little." etc.
for the class or kind of industry used the concept could tell that the boys had each of the girls. Hence, branches and hiciesen verifications also matched more critical or more brazen for the protagonists. But no one seemed wrong, for tradition is king:
"Palmera, look who you want or you want your grandmother.
Negrillo, is the cow after the calf.
Jara, lazy, etc..
With booths in many towns were inevitable evening round. The young men roamed the streets of the town singing songs full of expression and feeling.
in Villanueva de Azoague, for many years, made the booths in the month of May, specifically to coincide with the feast of St. Gregory Nazianzen in celebrating holidays. And who stroll through the village you will see branches by the doors and windows of many houses.
"This tradition is very old, he says Gonzalo, its mayor. They did my parents and grandparents and it also when I go into fifth. Because before it was a celebration more than a fifth. Now I put all young people want, from of the 15 or 16 years. Like most fifths is no longer a way to continue the tradition. And I put all the women are single, any age, whether or not committed. "
The tree used in Villanueva is poplar, as well as being abundant in the area, it becomes the more symbolic. Is also one of poplar, but very few other species. Gonzalo
warns me that the first and largest branch was dedicated to the Virgin and placed in front of the church have even prepared a hole to get him. Until a few years I put on the window or door and filled the whole leaves and sticks, and decided to do it this other way. Therein lies the verdiblano poplar branch, dedicated to Our Lady.
The Local Authority is working with the boys by giving them a subsidy for expenses incurred, and in order that the tradition does not disappear, for this, and everything else, helps to give life to the people.
The branches of Villanueva de Azoague not accompanied by rounds and chants, as in other places, but Gonzalo tells me that once placing colored blue or white on the classes that were written phrases or sayings, related more or less with the protagonists, the young men and unmarried girls. He says it was common to see people come to class to read what was written on the tapes. In the tape placed in the branch of the Virgin Mary always wrote that the "Tota pulchra originalis fault is Maria et non est in te" (All beautiful you are Mary and no original sin in you.)
the moment I have no evidence that any other people of this district is held or made booths. Enough time we Villanueva, where, thanks to the mayor and others, some traditions remain worthy of respect, along with other modern entertainment or sporting events of note. ----------------------------------------------
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published this report in the weekly La Voz de Benavente and Region on May 13, 2006.
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