Traditions

1. TRADITIONS OF SARDEGNA

2. Mamuthones and Issohadores
● Mamoiada
● Mamuthones are infernal creatures
while Issohadores are pure
creatures.
● Go in the streets to celebrate a local
festival.
● Two legends about the origins of
this creatures: one is about the
victory of a war and the other one is
related to diabolical creatures.

3. BOES, MERDULES, FILONZANA
Represents a continued fight between
the animal behaviour and the human
behaviour.

4. MERDULES
● The Merdules represents a human who tries
to domesticate the Boe. Uses a mask of an
ugly old man that is unhappy with his
condition of domesticating.

5. FILONZANA
● The Filonzana is the only female character
on this festival. It represents the figure of
an old person who tries to weave a thread.
Also, it cuts the thread in front the ones
who do not offer drinks. The thread
represents the life and the scissors the
death.

6. BOES
● The Boe uses a mask of an animal.
Wears bells and lucky symbols.

7. PAVONCELLA
● Symbol of
fertility,abundance,harvest,
health and rain.
● The legend says that it is a
descendant of the phoenix.
● It is usually in ceramic
plates,looms and it is added
to the su-coccu

8. PINTADERA
● It symbols represent astronomy,a
calendar and mythology.
● There were big pintaderas that were used
to give shape to bread.
● This two theories have a relationship:
Bread was sacred and the symbols
represented a calendar because it lead to
a new season to grow more food.

9. SU COCCU
● It protects you from evil eye, poisoned
plants and animal attack.
● If the power evil is too strong,the Su
Coccu acts as a shield.
● In the past, it was a very common
object, but nowadays it is bought mainly
as a souvenir.

10. TENORES
● Groups of 4 male people placed
in a O shape.
● The origins of this tradition are
found in shepherds. In the past,
there were only 3 voices which
represented the sound of the
wind, the ox and the sheep.

11. MORRA
● There are two players hide a fist
behind the back. Then each
player at the same time says
the number of fingers that he
thinks they will have extended
between the two hands and
simultaneously show the
hands.If the number that you
said is the same as the sum of
the fingers you win.

12. LAUNEDDAS
The launeddas (also called
Sardinian triple clarinet or Sardinian
triple pipe) are a typical Sardinian
woodwind instrument made of three
pipes. They are a polyphonic
instrument, with one of the pipes
functioning as a drone and the other
two playing the melody in thirds and
sixths.

13. BARE FOOT RUN
● Is a race in which participants
run without trainers.

14. BALLO SARDO
● Sardinian dance identifies all
the typical dances of the island
of Sardinia.However, it may
involve a specific dance, the
most widespread, which
corresponds to the name of
Ballu Tundu ("circular dance"),
A Passu Torrau ("with repeated
steps"), Ballu Seriu ("perched
dance") and others, depending
of the area taken into
consideration.

15. CANDELIERI
● Many Sardinian cities have their
own traditional feast days and
carnivals, but few are as
impressive as the Descent of
the Candelieri, which takes
place on 14th of August each
year, and has done so for more
than 700 years

16. ARDIA
● In this event riders dressed in
black with the flag of the cross
descended in the name of the
saint at a dizzying speed
chased by a hundred knights in
white shirts. The meaning of
battle was reinvented: the
yellowish white dust made it all
confusing, the rivals of the arch
fought and the guns loaded with
bullets caused noise and fear.