Travels Trips And Trots On And Off Duty From the Tropics to the Arctic Circle
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Rambles in the Peninsula. 127 All young girls on entering the Cathedral proceed straight to this relic, and touch it, then crossing themselves, and retiring backwards. The legend is represented over the western entrance and in many other places. Over the cloisters is an old rarely visited gallery, to which "el senor Don Dinero" (backshish) gained me admission; in it are kept the " Jigantes" colossal figures which used to be carried through the city in procession. The chief of these is the Taras...ca (a huge alligator), into the mouth of which the elderly female conducting me disappeared, and caused the grotesque figure of the Anavolena to spring out of its back. This Anavolena is Anna Boleyn, and, they mean by it, Protestantism springing out of the foul beast of the slime. It was introduced soon after our Henry VIII. 's divorce of Catherine of Aragon and mar- riage with the Protestant Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena or Anavolena, the b and v in Spanish being almost inter- changeable) ; of course, it was intended as a high com- pliment to England.
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