Rapa das Bestas (Shaving of the beasts/horses) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the feral horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain …
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Rapa das Bestas (Shaving of the beasts/horses) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the feral horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain…
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
Spain
Written in its own script on record as Rapa das bestas.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
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What is Rapa das Bestas in plain words?
Rapa das Bestas (Shaving of the beasts/horses) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the feral horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain… In local script on record, it is written Rapa das bestas.
Where is Rapa das Bestas practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Rapa das Bestas in Spain.
What is the current condition of Rapa das Bestas today?
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Rapa das Bestas (Shaving of the beasts/horses) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the feral horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains.
The traditional festival is said to date back to the 15th century.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Rapa das Bestas”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
Rapa das Bestas is galician cultural festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 1