tonto de capirote 25
Popular expression that emphasizes tontez; it would be a perfectly silly fool. The expression brings us back to the time in our history when the Holy Inquisition made her own. Heretics, false Jews converts, witches and other suspicious people were put the sambenito and the conical beanie on the way to the scaffold among the insults of the mob. The capirote, which in some places also call coroza, capuz or capirucho, is now used by some brotherhoods and penitents in the Easter processions.