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La barraca
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
CLM-INCENSE-002 · VERIFIED
Incense outside Valencia Cathedral in La barraca
In a 1901 edition of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel La barraca, the narrator depicts how, from time to time, as the cathedral's inner doors open, a cool, damp breath of incense, likened to air from an underground place, spreads into the warm square outside Valencia Cathedral while the judges of the Water Tribunal talk by the door before their session.
A depiction in a novel set in its author's own time: it shows how the scene was written, not a record of the cathedral's practice, and not how the square smells today.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).
- La barraca, ch. IV The Wikisource chapter text is not linked to page scans; a scan of the 1901 edition exists, but a search of its transcribed pages did not find this passage, so it is cited by chapter.
Time described: 1901. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Place: Valencia, at that time — not a statement about today. Checked 2026-10-03.
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