Baby jumpers

Each year in June moms in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia assemble in the town square and carefully place their newborn babies on strategically placed mattresses for the annual baby jumping festival known as El Salto del Colacho. A cadre of pious locals dressed in black chase El Colacho -- the devil himself -- forcing him to run and jump over the babies in a ceremony that is said to ...

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