To experience Carnival in Sardinia is a unique and emotion-filled experience. On the island, people use the word Carrasecare (carra-de-secare), instead of Carnival. Etymologically, the word means ‘to dismember living flesh’, this is linked to the fact that, Carnival is intended as an event of death, which then leads to a rebirth following the continuous cycle of life. People celebrate an ancient ritual related to death and rebirth, with propitiatory dances originating from Dyonisus cult that use anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations disguised as goats, bulls, stags and wild boars. Their gestural expressiveness, their faces and animal skin costumes carry the historical memory of these lands which each village preserves in a unique way.