1. UNUSUAL FESTIVALS PreparedBy Safiye Şeyma Keskin

2. TABLE OF CONTENT • Baby-Jumping Festival • Near-DeathExperience Festival • ColorThrowing Festival • CryingBabyFestival • End

3. BABY-JUMPING FESTIVAL

4. Villagers in Spain’s Castrillo de Murcia • Babies are laid down on a mattress for the ritual • Men in devil costumes jump over the babies for the little ones’ sin-cleansing, luck and good health. • Recent papal orders have asked the local priests to stay away from the ritual that has been taking place since 1620.

6. Near-DeathExperience Festival

7. Spain • Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme. • This festival celebrates people who faced death and lived to tell the tale. • On the day of celebration a parade is held in which the lucky survivors are carried in coffins to the cemetery and around the church. 

9. Color-Throwing Festival

10. Hindu • the oldest of clothes • wardrobes in preparation for a huge color-throwing festival called Holi. • In this spring festival associated with Lord Krishna • Avatar, God • people play with colorful powders called gulal. • Wet colors are also used in many parts of India. Food and drinks laced with a local cannabis plant called bhang are served during the festival feast.

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12. CryingBaby Festival

13. Overweight men with loincloths can be a very scary sight for many of us. • Babiesreact

14. In Konaki Sumo, a Japanese festival, The winneris the baby who breaks down first. Based on“crying babies grow fast”. • Goodhealth

16. SOURCES • http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-unusual-festivals.php • GooglePictures

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