Welcome to the second round!
First of all, thanks to all people who participated.
Let's see who's leading the scores:
Since this is the first round, I also gave away points to people who didn't answer the question, but showed ...'interest'.
Stephan: Correct answer, 5 Points (because of the first round)
Sami: Same, 5 Points
Jade, Christine, Manu and thePumba: 1 Point, for the interest.
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The correct answer was of course,
Le manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse by Jan Graf Potocki.
This book is excellent, if you have the possibility to read a copy, go ahead and try it.
Also: there's a movie from 1965, which is of course shortening a bit the book, but still is one of my favourite movies. It's a bit lengthy(175 min), though, so take your time when watching it and be awake. You can find more info on the movie here.
Go and watch the movie, if you can, it's definitively worth it.
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So, let's head to the second round!
This question asks for a part of an Religion/Sport/Ritual, and will be up for 2 - 4 days.
Here are the hints:
-This part is not very known, not even amongst practicants of the sport
-It's the most dangerous part of the sport
-The Sport/Ritual/Religion is unique (worldwide), and gains slowly a bigger popularity
-It's very demanding to take part in this sport...
-The effectiveness of this Religion/Sport/Ritual was tested in a (sort of) war
and here, as always, the hidden hint:
-The beginning and ending of a normal training session involves saying the name (when written down) of a famous desodorant
-Rabo de Arraia
Please take care: the question does not ask for the name of the sport, but a specific part of it!Well, I hope this is not too difficult:-)Else, I will perhaps post more hints.
Happy riddling!
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Chapa de Costas!!
Chapa de Costas, un mouvement du capoeira.
The sport is capoeira. But the part of it that you ask for is trickier... I'm guessing it is the Chamada? It may contain sneaky surprise attacks to test the opponents ability for cooperation and alertness, thereby making it a tense and potentially dangerous part of the play.
Stephan had this entry:
OK, this one was hard! The sport/ritual/religion is obviously Capoeira
or a variant of it. The "desodorant" [sic!] you mentioned refers to the
"Axé" (life force, positive energy), which is used in the ritual
greeting and derived from the religions of Candomblé and Umbanda. Now
for the "dangerous part" of Capoeira, I can only speculate you mean the
"chamada". It means "call" in Portuguese. One player invites the other
player for a break by exposing himself and standing at a distance. The
other player comes up to the caller and the two move together in close
contact. The caller then breaks the chamada using some action with the
intent of testing the awareness and the ability of the other.
Grüe,
Stephan
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