2011-06-26
The Baby-Jumping Colacho Festival
Since 1620 Castrillo de Murcia has celebrated Corpus Christi with an act that is known as El Colacho. The famously bizarre event sees grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over a row of babies lying in street.
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 event is an example of the mix of traditional Spanish folklore and religon.
The
celebrations continue for a few days but the most important day is the
Sunday following Corpus Christi. The shadowy brotherhood Santisimo 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: 26 Jun 2011
Where: Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
From: whatsonwhen.com
last modification: 2011-06-02
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