I just watched the 1963 James Bond film From Russia With Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_With_Love#The_film). There’s a scene where 007 is visiting a Gypsy camp in Istanbul for information, and two young women fight – not a spontaneous brauwl but a formal, scheduled, public duel (without weapons) – to decide which of them gets to marry the chief’s son. Is that an actual Gypsy custom, or did Fleming (or the film’s screenwriter, Richard Maibaum) just make it up to provide an excuse for a sexy catfight?
Well, it sure isn’t a Gypsy custom in Spain.
Mind you, hereabouts we’re still trying to recover from having falleras placed in Seville for Mission Impossible 2. It’s like placing a movie in Dallas and giving everybody a Boston accent.
“Falleras?”