Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo Carnival 2010 - Whips!

[chsn09]

@BlueHerself Interesting. That is interesting and funny. I hear sometimes they whip people out there hard. I can see why as a child you would be scared lol

[BlueHerself]

@chsn09 Yeah! I just remembered one of the things we used to shout @ them, which went like this: "Chicle, paleta los diablos tienen teta" [literally = gum, lollipop the devils have tits - of course it rhymes in Spanish though] lmfaoo another one was: "Chicle, bolon, el diablo e' un biberon" [literally = gum, hard candy the devil is a baby bottle] haaa

[chsn09]

damn a slave whippin lol

[BlueHerself]

@chsn09 These are Diablo Cojuelos - they come out every February 27th (Independence) as part of the Dominican carnivals. Haha, I remember as a kid we used to run from these dudes. We used to shout some common offensive sayings at them first and they'd come running after us kids with their whips lmfao..they didn't hit us though or if they did it wasn't hard. I think it's supposed to represent whipping "bad spirits" or getting rid of bad spirits something like that. Search for Robala Gallina lol

[thispbe]

why were they doing that? Is that cultural? part of the band?

[Karmalita]

wtf random