Costumbres populares; diversión; baile; burdel; danza; huevo; tiza; cuenco; suelo; objetos; siglo XVI; Rijksmuseum; Aersten - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:27:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbres populares; diversión; baile; burdel; danza; huevo; tiza; cuenco; suelo; objetos; siglo XVI; Rijksmuseum; Aersten - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The egg dance https://historylab.es/the-egg-dance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-egg-dance Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:53 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-danza-del-huevo/ Festive dance where people dance around an egg

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]]> On the right in this brothel, a young man dances to the music of a piper. In this popular springtime game, while the individual danced, he had to roll an egg into a chalk circle without breaking it and then cover it with a wooden bowl. All this had to be done with the feet without touching any object placed on the ground. This amusement, together with the behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.

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