{"id":"MINE2026-081","label":"Itajuí Folia das Almas berra-boi","people_or_site":"Folia das Almas of Itajui","country_current":"Brazil","historic_region":"Itajui / Vale da Gurita, Delfinopolis, Minas Gerais","macroregion":"South America / Brazil","local_name":"berra-boi","source_term":"berra-boi","source_language":"Portuguese","object_description":"A cord with a board at one end and a handle at the other.","function_summary":"The Folia das Almas of Itajuí uses berra-bois with matracas, réu-réus and whistles in its Holy Week procession and prayers for the dead.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"ITAJUI_FOLIA_DAS_ALMAS_BERRA_BOI","source_type":"heritage_and_ethnography","source_url":"https://revistasagarana.com.br/religiosidade/","page_or_plate":"Sagarana, Instrumentos musicais; Intercom 2007, p. 13 PDF / p. 12 scan","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Municipal tombamento dossier coordinate for Capela do Itajui, Fazenda do Ouro, Vale da Gurita, the documented locus of the Folia.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"For more than forty years the Folia das Almas has walked Holy Week through the Vale da Gurita at Itajuí, near Delfinópolis, carrying prayers for the dead. Its berra-boi is a board tied to a cord, with a handle at the far end, spun until it roars like a violent gale — sounding alongside matracas, réu-réus and whistles.","pull_quote":"Antigamente as pessoas se assustavam e as crianças choravam por causa dos instrumentos musicais. Ainda hoje, quando o ritual passa por uma casa que nunca recebeu a tradicional folia, muitos se assombram.","pull_quote_translation":"In the old days people took fright and the children cried at the musical instruments. Even today, when the ritual passes a house that has never received the traditional folia, many take fright.","pull_quote_cite":"Juliana Afonso, 'Preces para as almas,' Revista Sagarana 47 (2014)","term_gloss":"berra-boi (literally 'bellow-ox'): a Brazilian name for the bullroarer.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":["death_rebirth"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Juliana Afonso, “Preces para as almas,” Revista Sagarana 47 (2014), “Instrumentos musicais” section","url":"https://revistasagarana.com.br/religiosidade/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220820024802/https://revistasagarana.com.br/religiosidade/"},{"citation":"Intercom, Folia das Almas (2007), PDF p. 13 / scan p. 12","url":"https://www.intercom.org.br/papers/nacionais/2007/resumos/r0003-1.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220302101221/https://www.intercom.org.br/papers/nacionais/2007/resumos/r0003-1.pdf"},{"citation":"IEPHA-MG, Semana Santa catalog (2023)"}],"source_citations":"Juliana Afonso, “Preces para as almas,” Revista Sagarana 47 (2014), “Instrumentos musicais” section; Intercom, Folia das Almas (2007), PDF p. 13 / scan p. 12; IEPHA-MG, Semana Santa catalog (2023)","source_display":"Juliana Afonso, “Preces para as almas,” Revista Sagarana 47 (2014), “Instrumentos musicais” section; Intercom, Folia das Almas (2007), PDF p. 13 / scan p. 12; IEPHA-MG, Semana Santa catalog (2023)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A cord with a board at one end and a handle at the other.","function_display":"The Folia das Almas of Itajuí uses berra-bois with matracas, réu-réus and whistles in its Holy Week procession and prayers for the dead.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"folia das","display_name":"Itajuí Folia das Almas berra-boi","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EXH2026-036_soinuenea_30369_zunidor.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EXH2026-036_soinuenea_30369_zunidor_thumb.jpg","alt":"Brazilian zunidor carved with crosshatched diamonds and a corded wooden ball.","credit":"Soinuenea — Herri Musikaren Txokoa, object 30369","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://www.soinuenea.eus/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Brazilian zunidor carved with crosshatched diamonds and a corded wooden ball."},"slug":"mine2026-081-folia-das-almas-of-itajui"}