Pig Slaughter Festivals

I sat down to have a burger. Same guy from last year works in the burger bar. You're back. He says. You're back I reply. Where will you sit he asks? All the tables on the little main square are wet from the rain. He starts placing cushions on al the balcony chairs single table so that i have a choice. I have to hide you see. I tell him. Need a table that cant be seen from the main square. I have just run away from boring company. I order my burger and vine. He prepares the burger and than starts fussing about the balcony hungry to talk. I visited your town this winter, i say to the mousy lonley looking chap. Really? What where you doing?He is surprised i went so far north. What you need to do is come on the slaughter days. Yes the salughter days are the best. In the farming provinces of croatia wihere families breed their own animals, which run about their fields, the approach of winter brings on the necessary preparation of winter food. " The slaughter days start in earley december, with rakiya at 6 am in the moring.. You drink moonshine so early I ask? Oooofff. You should see the amounts.. All the friends of the family gather at the farm and drink rakiya.. Than they sing a song to the pigs and dance a circle dance before killing it. Really? I ask fascinated at this aborigine sense of respect.. Phew. No of course not. The men get an ax and go decapitate the pig. Arrgh.. I am more than squeamish. They go for it with an axe and sometimes the miss. Its awful . But most of the time they decapitate the pig.They let the blood run out. Than they throw it in to the hot water bath, where the pig is washed and spun around, but sometimes the pig spins itself as its still alive. Than they apply the torch to its hair.. After that its hung upside down. Its belly is cut open the intestines are taken out. The women than clean out the intestines of the pig to prepare them for sausages.. Are they full of poo? No they are full of pig food. Than the party happens. Do you eat the pigs? Yes the liver and some of the bacon is thrown on to the grill that day.. And the party carries on in to the night. You need to come in december. --