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As in much of the province of Jaén, this festival is deeply rooted in Cabra, although it maintains some peculiarities.

The night before January 17, the day of San Antón, the neighbors gather around the fires and during the evening they eat roses and products of the slaughter, they drink wine in boots or jugs, they fire their shotguns into the air, the boys jump the fires and together with the girls, they make wheels around the fire.

During the previous days, they are legion, the “zagales” that are seen in the streets with their bundles of firewood, old furniture wood or large olive branches from the cutting of these, storing enough material so that their fire is worthy and the flames rise as high as possible, as they say around here "burn San Antón's beard."

Although the days of January are cold in these parts, the atmosphere that originates is very warm, with that haze produced by smoke and that smell of burned wood that takes over the entire town, which encourages the Cabrileños to party and to say goodbye to Christmas in this way, since as the saying goes, “until San Antón, Easter is”.