“Encerrar” e “desencerrar” ou a arte da capeia em “uma corrida de toiros no sabugal”, de Abel Botelho (1854-1917)

• Autor(a) principal: Pina, Margarida Esperança
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2022.12960

There are many testimonies (from oral tradition, among others) that try to express the Arraiana culture. But what is intended is to try to assess the cultural heritage around the capeia arraiana, based on the short story “Uma corri de toiros no Sabugal”, published by Abel Botelho in Mulheres da Beira (1898). The capeia arraiana is a typical bullfight of the lands of Riba Côa, in the villages of the raia and is thought to have originated in an agreement between the cattle ranchers of the Spanish province of Salamanca and the Portuguese villages. Once a year, they used to give up some wild cows to, in some way, compensate for the damage caused by the Spanish cattle that crossed the lane to graze in the Portuguese gardens and marshes. In this way, we intend to revisit the first short story that is assumed as a true semantic and poetic testimony of this arraiano collection. And, under this view, we believe that from a literary code, the language of the bulls becomes a lively dialogue between the symbolic and the imaginary of the intangible cultural heritage of the peoples of the border.