From the archive record
It’s likely that you noticed students strolling around the roads of Porto wearing dark clothes. It's called Praxe and it actually started in Coimbra. Praxe is the baptism of students in universities in Portugal and was created to make a start for the freshmen into the college association and also to support the increased loss of societal inhibitions. Convention, rite, and happiness are a few of the key components of Praxe. Many of the rites are done together, but the Praxe is occasionally taken too far by senior students. They sometimes change the initiation rites into assault or humiliation. These are a breach of the beliefs of Praxe. Source: erasmusu This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South