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Gérard
Contant tells you about
the legend of Leg of Wood and the Merengue
Since 1753, the pirate with the Leg of Wood would be the
author of a dance called Merengue. The Merengue is a Dominican
origin dance, the movement being executed only by one leg, the pther
being held stiff. This dance ascends to the period of pirates having
often a leg of wood. They danced a farandole called Merry Ring
that would be the origin of the word Merengue. That music possesses
elements of African dances (slaves) and European grid (the discoverers).
Since very numerous years, the festival of Merengue dance takes
place end of July in Dominican Republic.
... and then came
the legend of the Jig of the Lame.
Always according to a legend, Leg of Wood and his buccaneers whose
most following wars, had a leg whose other, replaced by a leg of
wood, to add the spicy, in addition to create the merngue on an
European reel, they have danced the Jig of the Lame. It is on this
music that they took their treasures on a small island without name
more to the south of the Dominican Republic. Boats being not able
to render there, they crossed on giant tortoise back, but they returned
in Republic to live there of piracy.
Legend of the
Tortuga.
It is near 1883, than an other pirate and his buccaneers, in the
search of the treasures of Leg of Wood, living in Hispaniola (today
called Dominican Republic and Haïti) directed to a small island
more to the south, to discover there a few gold and a lot of silver.
One nicknamed this man Long John Silver (for the found silver),
his real name would be Robert Louis Stenson. Arrived on this small
island, having crossed on the back of turtles, he nicknamed it "the
Island of Tortuga". To go there one had to use turtles, from where
has come the name of the Passage of the Turtules. It is this
place that has become the first to have the right to charge for
crossing. Since this legend governments impose tolls on roads and
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