{"id":7086,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-horse-instead-of-a-camel\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:22","slug":"the-horse-instead-of-a-camel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/camel\/the-horse-instead-of-a-camel\/","title":{"rendered":"The horse instead of a camel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The horse instead of a camel <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even the horse has a symbolic history in Europe which is equally ancient: if one thinks, for example, of the so-called Franco-Belgian <em>cheval-jupon<\/em> (a cloth horse, worn by a knight in a way similar to a lifesaver), which is also found in Seminara, and the mythical <em>Horse Bayard<\/em> (the magical steed ridden by the four sons of Aymon, described in the cycle of Charlemagne). At L\u00e9au, a Belgian city of Flemish Brabant, the presence of the camel has been attested since the sixteenth century, along with a giant Goliath, a lion, the <em>Horse Bayard<\/em> and a <em>cheval-jupon<\/em>. The similarity between the southern camel and <em>Horse Bayard<\/em> is justified especially in cases where the exotic animal is surmounted by a small figure of a Moor. In other cases, when the identity of the strange figure is associated with that of a devil, there may be similarity with the puppet of Anne Boleyn, who sits on the famous Franco-Spanish Tarasque or <em>Tarasca<\/em> (a mythological monster with the body of a turtle and with a lion&#8217;s head). Interestingly in the <em>ommegang<\/em> (procession) in Termonde, in flemish Belgium, the camel is surmounted by a small Moor which is part of a varied scenery composed by giants and fantastic animals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horse instead of a camel Even the horse has a symbolic history in Europe which is equally ancient: if one thinks, for example, of the so-called Franco-Belgian cheval-jupon (a cloth horse, worn by a knight in a way similar to a lifesaver), which is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6303,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7086\/revisions\/11604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}