The Pust


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The Pust

The "Pust" is a traditional figure of the Friulian carnival dress pants and jacket covered with colored rags and anchesso hat covered with rags, this dress and the fact that the pust ancient tradition represented the arrival of spring. The "Pust", durantie the carnival days, passes the houses accompanied by the devil and the angel who put together soccuadro the house to remember that winter is about to end and that I am to do the necessary spring cleaning.

On the eve of the Epiphany, after the blessing of water and fire, the Pust is dragged in chains through the streets of the town until pignarul, in front of which is freed.