The Catholic festival of Corpus Christi is celebrated all over Spain
with processions, mystery plays and a wide variety of popular
celebrations, but this one has to be the strangest. It is believed that
as the incarnate devils jump they take all their evil with them and the
children are cleansed.
The event's origins are vague, but the
celebration is an example of the mix of traditional Spanish folklore and
religion, and great fun to watch!
The celebrations continue for a
few days but the most important day is the Sunday following Corpus
Christi. The shadowy brotherhood of
Santísimo Sacramento de Minerva
- the people responsible for organising the celebrations - also chase
and terrorise anybody and everybody in the town at regular intervals
throughout the day.
When: 6 Jun 2010
Where: Castrillo de Murcia
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