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| La gifle atterrit // The slap is landing |
A few days ago we went for a short walk along seaside promenade towards San Cristóbal. When coming back, I suddenly felt something wet and cold touching my neck. Turning, I discovered a very embarrassed-looking fisherman with a small stripy fish on the end of his line. It was obvious that I was subjected to fish slapping as a result of an over-enthusiastic pull of the rod. He was very relieved when we started laughing instead of berating him.
The episode made me think of The Fish-Slapping Dance, of course. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article doesn’t have a French equivalent, so I looked around a bit. Clearly, the fish-slapping dance is a variety of weapon dance (no French equivalent either). But I did find one French weapon dance — Bacchu-ber, name origin unknown. So, here we go: Le bacchu-ber du poisson, le style de Las Palmas!
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