Note 1123 — Chapter II · RETROSPECT.
Reading edition
Aspilcueta de Oratione, cap. v, n. 25-35.
It was not until 1772 that Carlos III prohibited, in the churches of Madrid, the dances and gigantones and tarascas, or great pasteboard figures of giants and serpents, in the processions, as causing disorder and interfering with devotion; and in 1780 this was extended over the whole kingdom.—Novís. Recop., Lib. I, Tit. i, ley 12.