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Spanish village holds baby jump

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From the BBC: Spanish village holds baby jump.

Grown men have been leaping over rows of babies in the north Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia in an annual rite meant to ward off the Devil.

Jumpers dressed as the Colacho, a character representing the Devil, bounded over clusters of bemused infants laid out on mattresses. [continue, see photo]

Posted in religion, strange stuff

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