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A matador uses a muleta (red cloth mounted on a stick) during the faena stage (final act) of the tourada (bullfight). The muleta was invented in 1700 by Francisco Romero and is traditonally used to incite and lure the bull. Bulls are color blind, and it is the movement of the cape by the matador rather than the color red that provokes the bull to charge. The use of the muleta ritually indicates that the end of the bullfight is near. In this bloodless bullfight, however, the matador does not use a sword and the bull is unharmed. With the Portuguese style, the matador uses the cape to turn the horns aside while reaching over the charging bull's head to grasp ribbons behind its horns and at the same time, sidestep the charge.
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