Today, The Grandma has been searching L'Home dels nassos, a mythologicalCatalan character who can only be seen on December 31.
L'Home dels nassos (Man of the noses) is a mythological character whose tradition is kept in Catalonia.
The legend says that this man has as many noses as the year has days, and loses one every day and can only be seen on December 31.
In this way, children of Catalonia are led to believe that there is a man with 365 noses, and they are asked to search him on last day of the year. Being the last day of the year, he has only one nose remaining, the rest have been already lost.
Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
Today is the last day of 2021 and The Grandma wants to say goodbye to
this difficult year, talking about an ancestral Catalan tradition, L'Home dels nassos.
Joan Amades i Gelats (Barcelona, 23 July 1890-17 January 1959), was an eminentCatalan ethnologist and folklorist.
An autodidact, he worked at the historical archive of the city of Barcelona and at the Museum of Industry and Popular Arts of the same city.
From 1956 onwards, he collaborated with UNESCO. He was also an important promoter of Esperanto and founded the Federació Esperantista Catalana (Catalan Esperanto Association).
Perhaps the most important book in his large bibliography is Costumari Català (acollection of Catalan customs), the main work for the study of Catalan popular culture.
-Les diades populars catalanes (1932–1949) (The Catalan popular feasts)
-Les cent millor cançons populars (1949) (The 100 best folk songs)
-Refranyer català comentat (1951) (Commented collection of Catalan sayings)
-Les cent millors rondalles populars (1953) (The 100 best popular fairy tales)
-Costumari Català (1950–1956) (Collection of Catalan customs)
-Guia de les festes tradicionals de Catalunya. Itinerari per tot l'any (1958) (Guide to traditional feasts in Catalonia. Itinerary for the whole year)
Home dels nassos, Man of the noses in English, is a character in Catalanmyths and legends.
The legend says that this man has as many noses as the year has days, and loses one every day and can only be seen on December 31st.
In this way, children of Catalonia are led to believe that there is a man with 365 noses, and they are asked to search him on last day of the year. Being the last day of the year, he has only one nose remaining, the rest have been already lost.
This moves me to respectfully propose, in the Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya the publication more or less immediate of small volumes of songs within reach of all pockets, for the song to return to the village.
