The Trial of the Rooster

In Guarda, Portugal, at the time of Carnival is made The Trial of the Rooster in which with a theater they accuse the rooster for everything that happened in the city and in the country and then it is decided whether to burn the rooster or not (by the way, the rooster is not true, it is a huge rooster made of leaves), If the rooster is found guilty it is burned in the town square.

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