Whoever left also took the memory of the game
Emigration appears in the testimony of the players.
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Fernando Lima told, in Vila Boa from Bucos, to 23 October 2020, which emigrated after the military service. The match interrupted the practice of the game of the cock, but still liked to watch the cousin and the children of it. Before emigrating, he found other shepherds in the mountains: playing was also a way to live and make the day with the flock less long.
The National Inventory card contains another link to emigration: Custódio Bastos, from Bucos, who left for France, kept his lodon stick as a souvenir. The learning had passed by the father, Manuel Henriques Bastos, and Mestre Calado son.
There are still stories of return. In a testimony collected in October 2020, Fernando Oliveira recalls Ernesto Santos, who worked in Leiria and, after the reform, returned to Bucos and taught new generations. Leaving, keeping a memory and teaching again are different experiences within the same tradition. They are memories collected by the investigation, not an updated portrait of the participants or the trainings.
A tradition goes from hand to hand
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The schools of Bucos and Abadim
A knowledge that passes from hand to hand →The knowledge of preparing wood
Before the game, there is a woodwork →emigrants in a small piece of devotion
A small pagela kept a collective concern →
Source and context
MatrixPCI — Cabeceiras de Basto Stick Game, INPCI_2023_016
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