Bullfighting

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on foot and plant
the barbs in the animal's neck, weakening and angering the beast even more.

Finally the matador comes in for the kill. Brightly dressed, he uses a
sword draped with a cloth, called muleta. After a number of intricate passes
with the muleta, during which the matador must work extremely close to the bull,
the matador sights the bull along his sword, runs forward, and plunges it in,
aiming for the half-dollar-size spot between the shoulders. If the sword enters
correctly between the shoulder blades, it severs the aorta, or great artery, and
the animal dies almost instantly.

A crowd-pleasing matador may be awarded one or both of the bull's ears
or its ears and tail. An exceptionally fierce bull may be honored by having its
body paraded around the arena. The one thing that sets the Spanish apart from
most Europeans living beyond the Pyrenees mountains is their national spectacle
of bullfighting. Every city and most towns of any size boast a bullring, ...

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