an exciting scene


The most exciting scene occurs near the end in the church in Compostela. During the mass for pilgrims the swinging of the giant thurible is exhilarating. That thing wieghs about 150 lbs+/- and contains about 50+/- lbs of charcoal and incense. It's a visually spectacular sight! It issues an enormous quantity of incense smoke. That goes with the saying, "More incense, less nonsense."

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I agree, that scene actually scared me just for a microsecond :)

I wonder if anyone has ever been killed by those things? haha

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Have to admit, I thought the same thing. Hundreds of years of swinging, and not once a broken rope or a knot that comes loose? Maybe.

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