The Baby-Jumping Festival

We’re not joking, the Baby-jumping Colacho Festival is a real annual event celebrated all over Spain since the 1620s. It consists of grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over helpless babies. Why do they do this? They represent the devils that, when they jump, they take all the evil with them leaving the babies clean of evil. Here is a snapshot of one of the weirdest religious traditions

baby jumping festival 03 The Baby Jumping Festival

baby jumping festival 04 The Baby Jumping Festival

baby jumping festival 05 The Baby Jumping Festival

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baby jumping festival 02 The Baby Jumping Festival

Photos: © Reuters/Scanpix

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Posted by Mokujin | June 5th, 2008 11:22 am

Hi, I’m from Spain, and I wanted you to know that it is NOT a real annual event celebrated all over Spain. I’ve never heard of it before in my life, so I investigated. It only happens in a village called Castrillo de Murcia (Burgos). It’s one of the stupid traditions that every country has. The worst of them in Spain is bullfighting.
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