19 and 20 of January of every year in Piornal celebrate a singular celebration, so old that its origin is lost in history. Jarramplas receives a big wave of nabos by the streets while the tamboril crosses the town touching.
Some overcome this celebration to a mitológico origin, in which Thief is punished by Hercules after robbing cattle heads to him. Also it is spoken of his relation with the ceremonies that the Indians of America celebrated and which they were seen by the first conquerors, or perhaps the most realistic theory and more justified by the past cattle dealer of our town, that would be the one of the personage like cattle thief that was put under all class of punishments by the neighbors of the town.

The suit is most showy of this personage. Plenty of colorful, with a diabolic mask that hides its identity and its terroríficos eyes together with the horns that crown their head.

Day 19 acts of festejo begin lso. To twelve in the morning, Jarramplas will leave for the first time with all its atuendos. It is the moment at which hundreds of citizens send on the almost Dantesque appearance, a good part of the nabos collected by “fifth”.

To four of afternoon, the unquestionable figure, will have to go to the church, where the butlers will have to dress santo. And to twelve at night, perhaps, the closeest moment of the celebration, “alborás”. These are popular songs that are made by the traditional route of the town, in that Jarramplas will be walking of backs.

After “alborás” it is the typical hour of migas, that will extend until high hours of the dawn. Even so the untiring Jarramplas, to 9 in the morning of day 20, will have to fulfill the passage of Rejoicing.

Later, to twelve, the Greater Mass will take place in the parochial church, with its procession and peculiar “Spiral”, sung by the young women of the town and the auction of you walk them precede when coming out of Jarramplas, the most waited by all.

But not yet the martyrdom” for Jarramplas has finished “. In the evening, it will leave to raise santo the throne, later and last exit, finalizing with the delivery of the clothes to the incoming butler, with invitation of a back on the part of this one to the guests.
The singular celebration calls the attention of experts of all the scopes. Proof of it is the book that appeared yesterday in Cáceres: “Jarramplas: Festive ritual and plots of identity in Piornal”, written by Sebastián Diaz Churches, and that have been published by the Regional Publisher of Extremadura (ERE) within their collection Study.

The author of the book indicated that the work “is not a etnología of the Jarramplas nor an historical investigation”, but that the publication prevails like a work of recovery, investigation, analysis and anthropological reflection on the ancestral festividad.

The advisor of Culture, that went upon presentment of this book, emphasized the figure of the Jarramplas de Piornal like a “sign of identity” of all the frontier dwellers

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