One of the most widespread rituals in the marc brandy is the "queimada". There are paganism and mystery in this ritual in which the liquid is made to burn with certain formaulations and adding sugar, orange and lemon rinds, coffee or red wine to the taste of the person who is burning it. With steady hand fire is litted, and while the "queimada" is stirred with a ladle, some spell is recited at the same time taht rise the flaes and the office continues. The blazes rise bluee, yellow, white, greenish and purple. The faces are bathed of orgy until the appearance of the livid flames thta put an appearance of spectra in the faces.