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Hope you like all the pictures which were taken with Janet’s new voice activated camera (Take a picture of that, have you got that, don’t miss that, etc.) The voice activated camera had to run up some steps to the pier to get this picture of two old men carrying a young girl in a blanket.
This sort of activity would get you on the sex offenders register in most countries but in Madeira it passes for folk dancing. To appease the Gods of the sea the dancers have to carry a virgin to the water’s edge as a (symbolic) offering.
The girl was about 10 so they obviously weren’t taking any chances. The origins of this folk dance are lost in the mists of time but locals believe that if the dancing stops the Cruise Ships won’t return.
Dave x
31st December 2008
This sort of activity would get you on the sex offenders register in most countries but in Madeira it passes for folk dancing. To appease the Gods of the sea the dancers have to carry a virgin to the water’s edge as a (symbolic) offering.
The girl was about 10 so they obviously weren’t taking any chances. The origins of this folk dance are lost in the mists of time but locals believe that if the dancing stops the Cruise Ships won’t return.
Dave x
31st December 2008
You made me guffaw again!
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