Editing Zozobra (section)

== Burnt articles ==

The name is taken from the [[Zozobra (emotion)|Spanish word zozobra referring to a strong feeling of anxiety or worries]], and as its name suggests, the effigy embodies gloom and anxiety; by burning it, people destroy the worries and troubles of the previous year in the flames.<ref name="UPI">{{cite news |url= http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2007/09/07/Old-Man-Gloom-sorrows-up-in-smoke/UPI-82601189182702/ |title= Old Man Gloom, sorrows up in smoke |agency= United Press International |date= September 7, 2007 |access-date= 27 August 2011}}</ref> Anyone with an excess of gloom is encouraged to write down the nature of their gloom on a slip of paper and leave it in the "gloom box" found in City of Santa Fe Visitors' Centers in the weeks leading up to the burn. Participants are also welcome to add their glooms at the annual [https://burnzozobra.com/zozofest/ ZozoFest], a festive precursor event that takes place the weekend before Zozobra burns. Those who attend the burning can also add documents at the venue on the day of the burning, up until 8 pm MT, at a "gloom tent," where they can add their woes to the marionette's stuffing. Legal papers, divorce documents, mortgage pay-offs, parking tickets, a Martin guitar and even a wedding dress –– have all found their way into Zozobra to go up in smoke.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} At the festival, glooms from the gloom box are placed inside Zozobra to be burned alongside it.