Identifier: brazilbrazilians00kidd (find matches)
Title: Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Kidder, Daniel P. (Daniel Parish), 1815-1891 Fletcher, James C. (James Cooley), 1823-1901
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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liarity of the most sacredthings of our holy religion. At Bahia I learned, through a number of Koman Ca-tholic gentlemen, of an occurrence which took place in 1855, in the province ofSergipe del Rey. It was at a festival, and there was to be a powerful sermon 154 Brazil and the Brazilians. Hallelujah Saturday is better known as Judass day, on accountof the numerous forms in which that inglorious patriarch ismade to suffer the vengeance of the people. Preparations havingbeen made beforehand, rockets are fired in front of the churches ata particular stage of the morning service. This explosion indicatesthat the hallelujah is being chanted. The sport now begins forth-with in every part of the town. The effigies of poor Judas becomethe objects of all species of torment. They are hung, strangled, anddrowned. In short, the traitor is shown up in fireworks and fan-tastic figures of every description, in company with dragons,serpents, and the devil and his imps, which pounce upon him. ^jj«^3
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KILLING JUDAS. Besides the more formal and expensive preparations that aremade for this celebration by public subscription, the boys and thenegroes have their Judases, whom they do feloniously and mali- preached on the crucifixion. A civilized Indian, by the promise of muito cachaga,(plenty of rum,) consented to personify our Saviour on the cross. His position•was a trying one, and at the foot of the crucifix stood a bucket filled with rum,in which was a sponge attached to a long reed. The individual whose duty itwas to refresh the caboclo forgot his office while carried away by the florid elo-quence of the Padre. The Indian, however, did not forget his contract, and, to theastonishment as well as amusement of the audience, shouted out, 0 Senlior Judeio,Senhor Judeio, Tnais fel! (0 Mr. Jew, Mister Jew, a little more gall!) Collections and Collectors. 155 ciously drag about with ropes, hang, beat, punch, stone, burn, anddrown, to their hearts content. Lent being over, Easter Sunday i

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