. In this sense, young people performed parades on the streets wearing masks and costumes, collecting money and sweets, reciting poetry, singing and dancing. All this, to the sound of the triquelitraque – an instrument made up of a board and several rows of hammers that beat on it.

Taieira’ is a parade-dance, of a religious and profane nature, whose participants sing religious and popular songs, dance and play percussion instruments and accompany the Our Lady of the Rosary and St Benedict festivals, the patron saints of black people, commemorated on 6 January (the Epiphany).

For others, the burned Judas is a personification of the forces of evil, vestiges of ceremonies to obtain good results at the beginning and end of harvest, carried out in various parts of the world. There are still some historians that assert it is a residual custom of Roman pagan festivals.

On 20 July 1926, a Jewish temple was founded in the property of 29 Martins Júnior Street in the Boa Vista neighbourhood, which for some time became known as Shil Sholem Ocnitzer, in honour of one of its founders.