Winter masquerade of my land alistana, Tras-os-montes and other areas of the peninsular northwest that receives different names according to the place: Los Carochos, la Obisparra, el Atenazador, el Caracho. In this traditional representation of the shepherds, celebrated by the winter solstice and the beginning of the year, also studied by Pío Baroja, the devils with cork masks, tusks, horsehair hair stuck with fish, eyes of horror and giant wooden tongs with which they tried to catch the children and the girls stand out. Other characters of the procession are the filandorra, the blind, the gypsy, the molacillo, the drummer. . . Some consider that this representation symbolizes the struggle of good against evil in the manner of a sacramental auto.
