Among the Spanish People, 2. kötetR. Bentley and son, 1877 - 350 oldal |
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183. oldal - Eve comes the two days' holiday commences. At twelve the labourers leave their work, repair home, and dress in their best. Then the shops are all ablaze with lights, ribbons and streamers, with tempting fare of sweets and sausages, with red and yellow serge to make warm petticoats ; with cymbals, drums, and zambombas. The chief sweetmeats, peculiar to Christmas, and bought alike by rich and poor, are the various kinds of preserved fruits, incrusted with sugar, and the famous turrni. This last, which...
187. oldal - Poor fellows! they get little enough, and a couple of francs is well-bestowed on them once a year. After mid-day breakfast or luncheon is over, rich and poor walk out, and take the air ; and a :gaudy, pompous crowd they form, as a rule. As regards presents at Christmas, the rule is, in primitive Spain, to send a present to the Cura (parish priest) and the doctor.
185. oldal - Andalusia the panderita, or tambourine, is the chief instrument. It is wreathed with gaudy ribbons, and decked with bells, and beaten, shaken, and tossed in the air with graceful abandon to the strains of the Christmas hymn : " This night is the good night, And therefore is no night of rest ! " Or, perhaps, the Church chant is sung, called
186. oldal - From every house the inmates hurry to the gaily lit church, and throng its aisles, a dark-robed crowd of worshippers. The organ peals out ; the priests and choir chant, at this midnight hour, the Christmas hymn ; and, at last (in some out-of-theway towns), the priests, in gaudiest robes, bring out from under the altar and expose aloft to the crowds, in swaddling clothes of gold and white, the Babe newborn, and all fall down and Cross themselves in mute adoration. This service is universal, and is...
183. oldal - Spain is the land of luscious sweetmeats), are the various kinds of preserved fruits, incrusted in sugar, and the famous turron. This last — which is of four kinds, and may be called in English phraseology, "almond rock" — is brought to your door; and buy it you must. A coarse kind is sold to the poor at a cheap rate. Other comestibles peculiar to Christmas are the almond soup, truffled turkey, roasted chestnuts, and nuts of every sort.
187. oldal - ... it. There are three masses also on Christmas Day, and the Church rule, strictly observed, is that if a man fail to attend this Midnight Mass he must, to save his religious character, attend all three on Christmas Day. In antique towns, like Eija, there are two days...
186. oldal - ... throng its aisles, a dark-robed crowd of worshippers. The organ peals out, the priests and choir chant at this midnight hour the Christmas hymn, and at last (in some out-of-the-way towns) the priests, in gaudiest robes, bring out from under the altar and expose aloft to the crowds, in swaddling-clothes of gold and white, the Babe new-born, and all fall down and cross themselves in mute adoration. This service is universal, and is called the " Misa del Gallo," or Cock-crow Mass, and even in Madrid...
186. oldal - The turkeys have been slaughtered and are smoking on the fire. The night is drawing on, and now the meal is over. Twelve o'clock strikes ; and, in one moment, every bell from every belfry clangs out its summons. Poltroon were he who had gone to bed beforetwelve on
188. oldal - Cnra (parish priest) and the doctor. Many Spaniards pay a fixed annual sum to their medical man, and he attends all the family, including servants. His salary is sent to him at Christmas, with the addition of a turkey, or a cake, or some fine sweetmeats. On Christmas Eve the provincial hospitals present one of their most striking aspects to the visitor. It is a feast-day, and instead of the usual stew, the soup called...