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Desjarretadera

again bring to the attention of those who read my blog, a couple of events ancient times, that his curiosity and adventurous disappearance of one of them, gladly provided below and in particular to Dr. Chambers, "guilty of breathing in me," the vicious habit of delving into the mythical past of the bulls and more ... with the affection that I profess.
One of the lots used from earlier times in the celebrations of bulls bring them down, and has passed away, was the " crescent," which consisted of a stick as the pole or stick to stop, that one end had placed a crescent of steel concave edge shear . Hamstring
The manager approached the bull from behind, and in one stroke he cut the tendons of the hind legs of the bull.

weapons worn by royal guards, called "Alabarderos" since the time of King Ferdinand, known as "halberds" incorporated as one of the three utilities, such spears, a desjarretadera. (photo) this barbaric fate, VENATORIA origin, was a practice as old and widespread, as, evidenced by the references in the Bible, when Jacob (c. 1800 BC) before dying, to bless their children he tells two of them: "Simeon and Levi are hyenas, instruments of violence are their swords ... because men in their anger and wantonly slaughtered bulls hamstrung. "(Genesis, 49, 6)
In another passage we see that not only hamstrung bulls, and when the kings of northern Israel marched together in alliance against Joshua (Moses' successor , around 1200 BC.), Yahweh said to Joshua " Do not fear, for tomorrow at this same time, I will give them transferred before Israel: hamstring their horses and burn their chariots ." (Joshua, 11, 6-7)

Alabarda with desjarretadera

The passage does not quote the horses hamstrung, assuming they were some hundreds or thousands, as when David (1015-975?) Hadadecer defeated king of Soba: "David took from him in 1700 knights and twenty thousand foot; hamstrung all horses, chariots, leaving no more than a hundred shots of cars ..."( 2 Samuel, 8, 4-5), totaling at least 3,000 horses, out of about 3,400 of the wagons, 400 horses reserved for cars shooting, four per car.

is understood that this practice, though barbarous, was only the occasion of the tribal strife that followed one another quite often, because in normal life is comforting to find that codes such as Hammurabi (1730-1686 BC) criminalized such behavior, as evidenced by its articles, as well as the Laws Hittites (1500-600 BC), Article 74 provides: "If any bankruptcy horn or the legs of an ox, take that animal and give the owner of the ox another in good condition. "
is understood that, in agricultural villages, farmers, the loss of a valuable animal supposed to lose some of the estate. Thus both Babylonians and Hittites, as in the messianic laws, many articles were devoted to the protection of animals which were useful to man.

the book of hunting of Argote de Molibna, Sevilla, 1582

In the XV and XVI, the crescent used by the hunters, called Maroons in the West Indies, were " twenty spans long spears in the end have a weapon of iron, the crescent shape of excruciating edges, called desjarretadera, with which, these Maroons, rushing to the cattle while running away, and hiriéndolas in the knees of the feet, the first boats the hamstring, "according to one writer of the time.
Initially hamstrung bulls which were the Moorish slaves, blacks and mulattos were then, as related by Lope de Vega in Jerusalem: "... Castilla slaves that do the same with the bulls ".
This heinous practice of joy served for many spectators, who at the touch of hamstrings, jumped into the ring armed with all weapons reveling in the slaughter, as the review D. Nicolás Fernández de Moratinos, in his historic letter "... and then touched hamstrings, which are rushing to the bull accompanied by dogs, and hamstrung him and others around him with pikes and puncture finished off with the sword ... no waiting and no ability ...". Exactly Goya painted to illustrate the "historic Charter " Moratin, twelve lithographs and precisely the number twelve for the hamstrung a bull. (photo)

Engraving by Goya, n º 12

Other entertainment was hamstrung bulls drag vivo, as occurred in the Plaza de Burgos, under Philip IV the occasion of the marriage of Louis XIII of France (Cardinal Richelieu) and Dona Ana de Austria, in 1615, a feast of bulls, and the same " used four mules, not tamed, with tightrope, and the other being hamstrung, put them in the ring and tie the bull, and as running away from him, throwing both, making it jump, and thus rejoice a lot of people, and seemed fine as anything ever seen ".
One of the last times you have news that a right-hander took out the half moon in a run, went to the plaza Cayetano Sanz de Madrid, 9 May 1861, alternating with Julian Casas and El Tato, Augustine's three bulls and three others Salido tbsp and Santiago Martinez. Lotteries bulletin says the bullfighter and bull, "Cayetano Sanz after eleven natural passes, three more to the right, two above the head and a chest, gave a short, front to volapié, one in the horns Another low front to volapié, another the same, and as another air, another cut volapié, in which he and three thrusts descordó starting, leaving crescent ...". Total ten lunges
After this string of punctures, do not know what was more disgusting and repulsive, if the crescent or the recital of Mr. Cayetano.

La Lidia, 21-Oct-1895

After its abolition, was still obliged to show the public the crescent and was collected several rules of that time, as reflected by the squares of Madrid, Barcelona and Puerto de Santa Maria, among others, approved in 1880, stating in its provisions the obligation, the employer of the square, to provide at least a half moon and the authority, " after fifteen minutes, will signal the President and the playing of a bugle announced the time had passed and will help the sword is removed the bracket, and remove the nailer and shown to the public from the alley to ridicule crescent (derision) the sword, but you will not use it as this is a disgusting act " .

BEAUTIFUL PLACIDO GONZALEZ