The image that French "of the continent" they generally do him of Corsica it is a mess of characters, from which you/they confusedly emerge some an emperor, a singer, lawyers, actors of the cinema, and also some famous bandits. To such imaginary collective a certain attitude also places side by side him to attribute some defects to the courses what the indolence, the susceptibility, a certain spirit of clan, a chauvinism brought to the extreme, a certain propensity to the fiscal and electoral fraud but the picture that it emerges from the reality is very different. The apparent austerity, the demonstrations of typical Latin exuberance, the sense of the humor and the ready wisecrack, conceals rare quality: the sobriety, the courage, the cult of the family, the inflexible sense of the honor, the fidelity in the relationships of friendship and toward the word dates. The course is forged through a troubled history and a difficult life and it preserves a certain distrust towards Italian, luchesu ", (lucchese) of the French of the continent "pinzuttu", or of the "pied noir" (French of Algeria). The term some ironic of " pinzuttu " alludes (to point), probably, to the three-cornered hats used (tricorni) by the soldiers of Luigi XV, sent in the Corsica in 1764.
The course is endowed with a depth sense of the hospitality, it is incapable to act with calculation, proud of its small country, it appreciates that also the other ones share with him the admiration for its natural and landscape beauties and contribute to the comfort of its island; it surely appreciates less that comes true you profits from which is excluded or that they get in you uses and extraneous customs to his/her mentality.
In country, the courses can appear fatalist and person of fixed habits, they are Catholic apprentices and nevertheless prone to the superstitions. They love their island in exclusive way, but, if is found far, detached by the customs and conventions of their country, they show an unbelievable ability of adaptation and a notable sense of initiative, sustained by a vivacious intellectual curiosity. It is necessary to underline that, in country, they cultivates his/her own particularism manifesting him/it in various forms; the cult of the corpses, is for instance an extremely important tradition that imposes to his/her relatives, even if very distant, to accompany the dead one to the burial and to erect him imposing chapels.
Religious traditions
- The religious traditions are still extremely alive on the island and they are expressed with elements of great spettacolarità, as in the case of the processions, you organize in a lot of places the Thursday and the Friday Saint, during which you/they unthread for the roads long processions of hooded penitents. Imposing they are also the celebrations for the patrons of the cities and the villages, for the Madonna, and for some protecting saints of guilds what, for instance, sant'Erasmo, protecting of the sailors. The tradition of the Easter celebrations, that foresees the visit and the benediction of every residence from the priest, is still very strong. To these demonstrations of faith some practices are placed side by side often permeated of superstitious beliefs, among which he can surely quote the sale on the doors of the churches of the "the Ascension grass" on the occasion of the Easter party; this grass carefully comes then preserved to protect the house from the fires.
The "revenge"
- The distance of the Genoese justice and its missed application have induced for a long time who had suffered a serious offense to make himself/herself/themselves justice from itself, behavior it is imposed from the myth of the honor. Already in the XVIII sec., a very elevated number of homicides is signalled; the gravity of such phenomenon is shown by the famous one "mission" pronounced in 1744 against the revenge from one of the great popular preachers of the epoch, san Porto Maurice's Leonardo. In the XIX sec. the scourge assumes the dimensions of a real social sore that it will weaken only after 1840. This climate substantially represents the crib of the "banditry of honor", since the rule imposed to the executioner of "to give him to the stain." The number of the true bandits of honor was enough limited however. In a country occupied by a foreign administration, the rebel rose to popular hero. The most famous during the last two centuries were his/her brothers Bellacoscia of Bocognano, Nicolai of Carbini, F.M. Castles of Carcheto, Romanetti of Calcatoggio, To. Sword of Lopigna and Micaelli of Isolaccio of Fiumorbo.
The "revenge"
- The distance of the Genoese justice and its missed application have induced for a long time who had suffered a serious offense to make himself/herself/themselves justice from itself, behavior it is imposed from the myth of the honor. Already in the XVIII sec., a very elevated number of homicides is signalled; the gravity of such phenomenon is shown by the famous one "mission" pronounced in 1744 against the revenge from one of the great popular preachers of the epoch, san Porto Maurice's Leonardo. In the XIX sec. the scourge assumes the dimensions of a real social sore that it will weaken only after 1840. This climate substantially represents the crib of the "banditry of honor", since the rule imposed to the executioner of "to give him to the stain." The number of the true bandits of honor was enough limited however. In a country occupied by a foreign administration, the rebel rose to popular hero. The most famous during the last two centuries were his/her brothers Bellacoscia of Bocognano, Nicolai of Carbini, F.M. Castles of Carcheto, Romanetti of Calcatoggio, To. Sword of Lopigna and Micaelli of Isolaccio of Fiumorbo.
The song
- The songs traditional courses, near to the Arabic melopees and the Gregorian song, once impromptu, they reflect the struggles of the past and the hardness of the customs. The "complaints" they are dirges sung on the occasion of a death, the "voceri", wild cries performed by the "voceratrici", women dressed of black that hair was torn in sign of desperation for a death violent and they incited to the "revenge." To these funeral songs they made comparison some lullabies, carole, serenades (complimentary to the young girl), songs of job, satirical songs. The shepherds and the inhabitants of the villages of the hinterland (Rusio, Sermano) sing today still the masses in "paghiella", a modulation to three voices masculine, sour and agonizing.
