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The tradition of the Burning of the Raspajo of Las Torres de Cotillas was instituted in 2003 by the competent Department of the town hall as a celebration - at this point and already massive, consolidated and clear ethnographic reference - that, running in the Esplanade of the Master Ángel Palazón (in front of the central Plaza Mayor), serves as a climax and a brooch for the town's festivities.

Listed as a purifying ceremony, it has a double inspiration: the Christian, to see in the fire the auspicious element with which to destroy the evil past upon which the present renovator of the soul is built, projecting an idea of ​​life and health, of transformation, regeneration, amendment or death of the old man victim of sin and the birth in his place of the new man redeemed by faith;

and the pagan, endowed with that mentality -which goes back to the night of the times- where the fire came from the Sun, from which she was her representative on Earth, from him would see the strength emerge to facilitate the growth of the crops and, consequently, the welfare of men and animals.

And, speaking of crops, in Las Torres de Cotillas, just a century ago a town that lived on grapes, the festivities, as highlighted by the Official Chronicler of the Villa Ricardo Montes, revolved around this fruit at that time since they happened after the harvest, in the first fortnight of the month of October - until 1969, which moved to August dates - being the central act of the celebration to offer the first must of the collection to Our Lady of the Salceda.

In sum, a Burning of the Scratch of a magical, spiritual and transcendent nature that recreates, rescues an agricultural past that defines not a few aspects of the identity of the Torreño municipality and that one more year, next September 1, will renew vows for a better tomorrow for the local people.

Juan José Ruiz Moñino

Source: JJRM