The banderillero, carrying a banderilla in each hand, runs towards the charging bull at an angle and places the banderillas in its neck. |
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The kill, in these rare instances, is simulated using a banderilla or an empty hand, and the bull is then put out to stud. |
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In celebration, the story goes, the quintessentially Peruvian condor was set like a living banderilla to torment the imperial bull. |
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Every pica, and every banderilla, plunged into the bull's body are cheered by the matador's hero worshipers. |
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