caboclo
- noun
- Literature
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caboclo
- During the ritual, the medium called upon the caboclo for guidance and healing.
- caboclo festa
- caboclo pantheon
- caboclo songs
Examples
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The Caboclo initiated another song, a popular favorite that the crowd and the drummers picked up immediately.
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In raucous Caboclo festas, drummers have more latitude to improvise, and they play with their bare hands.
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It's always directed at a single person who is known to have a Caboclo but who has not fallen.
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The participants in the ritual know this Caboclo well.
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The Caboclo knew from previous experience that Tupinamb would sing three songs before taking his leave.
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Music is the medium through which knowledge about the Caboclo pantheon turns into power for devotees.
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Festas held in honor of Ogum often become festas de Caboclo.
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The compatibility of songs from the two genres is demonstrated by the large number of Caboclo songs in the samba-de-roda repertoire.
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Sotaque songs offer some of the most pragmatically pointed commentary on the proceedings of a Caboclo festa.
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Teles (1995) argues that Candomblé de Caboclo elaborates its rituals within a West African framework.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Caboclo also names spirits in some Afro-Brazilian religions and comes from the same idea of 'from the forest', meaning spirits of Indigenous origin. So, a caboclo spirit is a forest-linked guide or healer called during rituals.
