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The ones in Portugal are supposedly to be as well devil heads. Depending on the village that will be more evident, which is the case in Lazarim.
That's a tradition from Northern Portugal (Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro). And it's basically to mark the solstice and equinox, in Portugal to mainstream public it's more known as festivity of Carnival but there are villages as well celebrating it around Christmas due to the winter's solstice.
https://www.escapadarural.pt/blog/o-...etos-em-varge/
This video is subtitled in English and details a bit the tradition.
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Among Serbs there are no rituals connected with bears, but exist wolf rituals. Serbs and other South Slavs always had huge respect for wolf (as Russians for bear), same as Turkic people. In some legends ancestor or close relative of Serbs is wolf.
Wolf ritual of Serbs from Dalmatian hinterland known as 'Vučari'
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I think that if it was Roman we would probably already know that since the Romans were a civilisation that knew how to write and left a vast written legacy of their traditions and customs. Nobody knows for sure but I believe it is pre-Roman, also because it usually marks the solstice. The pagan peoples of Europe have always had an obsession with the solstice, since prehistoric times, just look at the majority of megalithic constructions throughout Europe are almost always perfectly aligned with the stars, sun and moon to mark the solstice and equinox.
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These traditions with masks exists and are very common only in Moldova region (north-eastern Romania), so did not have anything to do with Romans. The tradition from OP it seems to be connected with Gypsy group "Ursari" (bear handlers) who in the past were an nomadic occupational group of animal trainers among the Gypsies.
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