Thursday, 11 July 2013

El Colacho (Baby jumping) Festival

Date: Middle of June after the feast of Corpus Christi, a Christian holiday.
Place: Small Spanish town of Castrill de Murcia near Burgos


This traditional festival is known as a dangerous festival in the world for infants that held in the middle of June in a  small Spanish town of Castrill de Murcia near Burgos. there is another name for this festivals as baby-jumping or devil's jump festival as part of its Corpus Christi celebrate  This Spanish traditional festivals take place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Coropus Christi.


A man dressed with a devil cloths in red or yellow color and jump over infants who lie on mattresses in the street that born during previous year ( 12 months). Meanwhile, there have been no report about baby injuries during festivals yet but, it's considered  as a riskiest festival in the world.



The people believe with jumping the devil, the infants will be clean of the original sin and will protected from all disease  illness, evil spirits and also will have a safe life.

This festival is the the culmination of a four-day celebration following the feast of Corpus Christi, a Christian holiday.

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