Some Definitions

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Cogida : tossing and goring, as by a bull.

frail of lime : a basket of quicklime (used in burials to hasten the decomposition of the body).

barreras : the first row of seats around a bullring.

Guisando : a town in the central Spainish province of Avila.

Seville: a city in the province of Andalusia in southwest Spain.

Andalusian Rome: Seville.

sierra: mountain range.

banderillas: barbed harpoon-like spears used to provoke the bull into charging.

Guadalquivir: river that flows through seville to the Atlantic Ocean.

caracolas : horns made of conch shells which the shepards in Grenada use to communicate in the hills.