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The spear is a traditional dance whose origins seem lost in time. There are similar dances in different parts of Europe: Dances of San Jean in France, the St. Vitus Dance in Germany and Flanders, and so on., all dated in the fifteenth century. Among the Spanish, the lance can be inserted into a pagan tradition incorporated into Christian ritual by Romans, Visigoths and Mozarabs, despite the attempt to remove by the Council of Toledo III (563), considering the awkward dances and songs of the century.
Apparently in the area of the Sierra was introduced by the settlers during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The spear, once Christianized, will become part of the employer processional processions of the Virgin of the Dove. It is a dance full of crosses, dizzying rhythms, prance and dance steps executed by a dance troupe composed of seven men who tirelessly dance before his landlady accompanied by the sound of the bagpipe, drum and castanets.
These dancers wear a traditional dress of their own: white socks and sandals, except for the script or director, who is of another color; trousers fastened below the knees and with a tassel, with a row of buttons on the side of the haunch, in the volero around them are the two flyers with brocades and embroidered tulle like classical dancers, with some tissues leads to the side for sweating, white shirt and a headdress consisting of a round cap with a peak before, decked up and discovered talc with small flowers and cloth, hanging flower color after a few ties, although the script is played out for lead in the top two semicircles adorned with flowers. The castanets, which are in the hands and touch while they dance, they have some colorful ribbons.
