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ARTIFICIAL ANGELS OF ECUADORIAN RELIGIOUS CEREMONIAL |
SINGING THE SPANISH "SONG OF SONGS" |
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| Many bedizened and garlanded effigies of angels are carried by the Indians during the procession, the leading feature of a religious fiesta. Some processions are attended by dancers, mimes and masqueraders, and not infrequently by the so-called "chacatascas," or public penitents, who, like the flagellants of the Middle Ages and the Indian fakirs, publicly inflict tortures upon themselves | In his "traje charro," the showy riding costume of the Mexican cowboy, he makes a handsome figure as he listens to the tremulous lilt of "La Paloma," sung by his dark-eyed companion with all the passionate abandon of her Spanish nature |