Radiografía de los comportamientos del pueblo en la comarca del Ribeiro

Abstract

This article deals with the rules applied by the official Catholic Church to different parishes of the Ribeiro area through Circulars and Pastoral Visits since the mid of the XVI Century. These rules tried to moralize and domesticate the secular and religious behaviour of the Galician peasants. The church controlled all kinds of local pagan festivals and religious pilgrimages community works, such as fiadas or spinning, muiñadas or milling, funeral wakes and lunches and gastronomic events. It could be said that in spite of clerical impositions. Lent or repression has never thouroughly triumphed over celebrations or carnival time.