Bujlood

father of pelts) or Bilmawen (Moroccan Arabic: بيلماون, Berber languages: ⴱⵉⵍⵎⴰⵡⵏ) is a folk Amazigh celebration observed annually after Eid al-Adha in parts of Morocco in which a person or more wears the pelt of the livestock sacrificed on Eid al-Adha.

They dance around in their masks and costumes carrying limbs of the sacrificed animals, which they use to play with people they run into and trying to touch them.

The French ethnologists Edmond Doutté and Émile Laoust [fr] connect the tradition to pre-Islamic Amazigh rites celebrating the changing of seasons and death and resurrection.

[7] The Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck connected the tradition to the Roman Saturnalia festival.

[8] The Moroccan anthropologist Abdellah Hammoudi, in his essay The Victim and Its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb, refutes these interpretations and contextualizes bujlood as a Moroccan cultural practice inseparable from the Eid al-Adha sacrifice.