These bright colors emphasized the exuberant gaiety of the villagers' merrymaking. The locals also engage in feasting to celebrate this festival of merrymaking. Feasting, drinking, and merrymaking at earlier commencements often got out of hand. Dances, communal feasts, and merrymaking are arranged by the people associated with the temple. During this festival Lobocanons celebrate the feast with music and merrymaking. There is a celebration; children honor their parents with a feast and merrymaking. The days are spent mainly in eating, drinking, singing and dancing and merrymaking. A guardroom scene typically depicts an interior scene with officers and soldiers engaged in merrymaking. The loud noises and sounds of merrymaking are also supposed to drive away bad spirits. They reach the Cossack camp at the Zaporozhian Sich, where there is much merrymaking. The literal meaning of the Portuguese word "pagode" translates to "fun" or "merrymaking". Safer methods of merrymaking include banging on pots and pans and blowing on car horns. In the midst of his merrymaking he receives a letter detailing Antonio's misfortune. Certain competitions are organized and merrymaking lasts for several days. Pedroche accepted, and during the merrymaking, he and his men were massacred.