Powder Day
powder day day powder spanish día de los polvos celebrated southern spanish village tolox shrove tuesday final day annual tolox carnival local tradition involves throwing talcum powder one another one reason given custom take place day ash wednesday priest declares faithful remember man dust unto dust shall return likely origin tradition said root christianmoorish riot th century tolox christian control large moorish population christmas civil strife predominantly moorish peasant christian landholder one chronicler state custom originated dispute moorish christian girl love man worked bakery argument grew heated ended throwing flour could find year gone custom evolved young men wanting request girlfriend hand marriage would throw flour girl wishing subjected would refrain going street forcing boy come ingenious way powder target young man would dust hand flour try enter young girl house smother face flour door window closed meant desired girl lad still keen smartly outwit climbing roof breaking window door get smeared flour thus winning heart symbolic way simply impress nowadays tradition especially appeal young people hurl talcum powder instead flour without preference distinction gender origin completely covered many outsider come tolox take part peculiar fiesta kilogram known thrown village similar custom take place alozaina hundred people celebrate hariná remembrance time ancestor covered young woman wheat flour mill show love holi unrelated yet similar indian custom list holiday country