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26th
July is the anniversary of the feast held in honour of Saint Anna,
venerated in several towns in the Molise, including Pescolanciano and
Jelsi. At Pescolanciano, late in the afternoon of the 25th
July, the procession takes place of the manuocchi, sheaves of
corn decorated with flowers and coloured ribbons.
The
sheaves, of
differing sizes and styles, are blessed and paraded on tractors and
carts, or they are carried by hand or on the head by adults and boys and
girls.
At
Jelsi, the typical feature of the feast of Sant’Anna is the
particular means of transport used which are sledges called traglie,
which slide along on two wooden skates, called soglie. The
sledges are decorated with ears of corn, artistically fashioned in such
a way as to form pre-established shapes and figures. The streets and
squares, too, are decorated with interlaced ears of corn.
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