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A moro-moro plot is like a coin: heads, a Christian wants to marry a Moro princess; tails, a Muslim wants to wed a Christian princess. In the obverse, a king holds a tournament so that his daughter can select her Prince Charming. A Moorish prince joins the tournament and wins her love. But the king will not brook a Muslim son-in-law. A timely war breaks out. The Moor displays his military prowess, becomes a Christian convert, and marries the princess. The reverse has a little more variety. The Christian prince is imprisoned. The Muslin princess helps him escape.They either flee together, or she loses her life in the process. The princess may be killed in battle. But he resurrects.
Moro-moro subplots are taken from the Spanish chivalric romances that Cervantes wanted to put a stop to in Spain. That is where the protagonists encounter lions, giants and bears in forest or enchanted places. The Christian hero invariably has an image or relic of some saint or another given to him by his dying mother. The talisman saves him in every instance. The moro-moro has conventional costume. Colorwise, it is like checkers; the Moros wear red; the Christians, predominantly black. Turbans, scimitars and crescents five the Islamic accent; tricornes, stockings, sabers and halberds provide the Christian dash. But it is not unusual to see all sorts of accputrements from every imaginable era and nationality.
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