Sprinkled with rose petals, a newly-blessed infant lies on a mattress at the Fiesta del Colacho in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain

Sprinkled with rose petals, an infant lies on a mattress after being jumped over by El Colacho, the devil incarnate, during the Fiesta del Colacho, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi, and the jumping over children born during the year is intended to protect them from illness and misfortune.

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Sprinkled with rose petals, an infant lies on a mattress after being jumped over by El Colacho, the devil incarnate, during the Fiesta del Colacho, in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi, and the jumping over children born during the year is intended to protect them from illness and misfortune.