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Baby jumping
Baby jumping (Spanish: El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish festival dating back to 1620. -
Description
During the act, known as El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) or simply El Colacho, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) in red and yellow suits jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the street. The "devils" hold whips and oversized castanets as they jump over the infant children. -
Why?
Thanks to Adam and Eve’s bonking in the Garden of Eden against the good Lord’s pleasure, to cleanse their newborn babies of the original sin, villagers of Castrillo de Murcia in northern Spain have their infants laid out in the street to be jumped over by men dressed as the devil -
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Baby jumping
Baby jumping (Spanish: El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish festival dating back to 1620. It takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Castrillo de Murcia
