But last week Spain was crawling with a new species of Anglo-American characters known, even among themselves, as bull bums. Before a bullfight, these happy eccentrics can usually be found tossing ...

A ''recortador'' jumps over a bull during a competition at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 12. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel ...