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Bull-leaping: Fresco from Knossos, Crete. Bullfighting traces its roots to prehistoric bull worship and sacrifice in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean region. The first recorded bullfight may be the Epic of Gilgamesh, which describes a scene in which Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought and killed the Bull of Heaven ("The Bull seemed indestructible, for hours they fought, till Gilgamesh dancing in ...
The practice of bullfighting in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France are connected with the legends of Saturnin of Toulouse and his protégé in Pamplona, Fermin. These are inseparably linked to bull-sacrifices by the vivid manner of their martyrdoms set by Christian hagiography in the third century.
Colombia’s congress voted Tuesday to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired famous songs and novels but has become ...
The video, recorded by European animal rights group One Voice, was published as part of an investigation into a bullfighting facility in the French city of Nîmes. It's part of the organization's ...
José Isaac Martínez Ahumada (Spanish: [xoˈse isaˈak maɾˈtineθ auˈmaða]; 19 September 1936 – 18 December 2015), known as Limeño (Spanish:), was a Spanish bullfighter from Andalusia whose heyday was in the 1960s.
Animal rights defenders in Mexico City on Sunday marched to protest the return of the centuries-old spectacle of bullfighting to the capital after almost two years. "Torture is not art, it is not ...
An écarteur in action. The course landaise is an ancient form of bullfighting and bull-leaping held in oval or rectangular arenas covered in sand, that involves no bloodshed. . Experienced cows, with large horns, aged generally from 2 to 14 years old, are used instead of bul