{"id":1129,"date":"2023-08-03T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-spanish-island-with-a-demonic-tradition-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:45:16","slug":"the-spanish-island-with-a-demonic-tradition-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-spanish-island-with-a-demonic-tradition-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spanish island with a &#39;demonic&#39; tradition \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CwnwJn0Nufg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>On the Spanish island of Mallorca, an ancient tradition hopes to bring out the &#8216;devil&#8217; in you.<\/p>\n<p>Once under threat from legislation and religious suspicion, Spain\u2019s &#8216;correfoc&#8217; festivals have been bringing spectacular displays to the streets of Mallorca for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition has its roots in medieval street theatre and folklore and is a celebration of fire and &#8216;good&#8217; versus &#8216;evil&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>To help keep this tradition alive, a training school for willing participants is teaching the skills needed to become a fully-fledged &#8216;demon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Marisa Candia Cadavid and Carwyn Jones<br \/>\nExecutive produced and narrated by Howard Timberlake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CwnwJn0Nufg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Spanish island of Mallorca, an ancient tradition hopes to bring out the &#8216;devil&#8217; in you. Once under threat from legislation and religious suspicion, Spain\u2019s &#8216;correfoc&#8217; festivals have been bringing spectacular displays to the streets of Mallorca for decades. The tradition has its roots in medieval street theatre and folklore and is a celebration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}