The Corriolos wear a skin of sheep or goat, are armed with pitchforks, and wear a magnificent headdress of cork with massive deer and fallow antlers. Instead of the typical bells, with many of the groups of the region, they rattle strings of animal bones that hang from their backs. The unified sound of the clattering bones is chilling.
Now, the rituals occur on January 16-17 in many towns in Sardinia, to celebrate Saint Anthony the Abbot. In the celebration, bonfires are burned, around which the community gathers to ask the Saint for grace and miracles. This particular event is called “Su Tuvera.”
The ancient Sardo traditions go back much further, however:
“These Dionysian rites, are there even before the invasion by the Roman Empire, that is, which should be from the third Punic war, where they introduced us their cultures.”
