Gore: The Brutal History of Bullfighting
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Third Stage of a Bullfight
A bull cannot just be killed. He has to be killed with style. Anything less would elicit booing and jeers from the crowd. A quick merciful death was just bad entertainment. The matador uses a cape to distract and disorient the bull pop culture stipulates that it has to be a red cape because the color red enrages the bull. Bulls are color blind. To a bull, it could be flowr print or pokadots for all he cares. But while the color the cape is largely irrelevant, the movement of the cape is not. When bull fighting officionados use terms like art, they are usually referring to this interaction between the matador and
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