Gegants Elm i Carmeta

Gegants Elm i Carmeta are civic artifacts created and maintained as part of Arenys de Mar's festival and procession practices. Their 'origin' lies in communal craft and ritual: they are constructed as large anthropomorphic figures to be carried and paraded by members of the community during public celebrations, embodying local personae or characters through performative display rather than arising from a mythic birth narrative.

The source identifies them simply as processional giants, meaning large humanlike effigies designed to be carried in procession. While the provided entry does not supply specific measurements, materials, dress, or gender attributes for Elm and Carmeta, they belong to the broader Catalan gegants tradition in which such figures are typically constructed at a scale larger than life, fashioned from lightweight frameworks and coverings so they can be borne by people, and dressed to represent distinct characters during festivities.

Their 'abilities' are performative and logistical: they are designed to be shouldered or carried in processions, to march, dance, and serve as visual personifications of civic or folkloric characters during festivals. They operate through human agency—carriers and teams animate movement and choreographed displays—rather than possessing supernatural powers. Their cultural function is to participate in public ritual display and to symbolize communal identity in procession.