From a wooden conical body, a plectrum metal at the tip and a rope that is wrapped in such a plectrum up the spin, appears to have been the protagonist of many hours of entertainment and festivities in life Creole. Turn, dance and do piruetas on the floor is the mission of this figure, which once launched by its owner, must confront the threats that attempt to topple their opponents.
The origin of the spin is very old. It is cited in the literature of Virgil in his "Aeneid" Roman poets and some confessed they had more fans to spin that the studies.