Stilt dancers celebrate Mary Magdalene

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Stilt dancers celebrate Mary Magdalene

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-23 09:20

Stilt dancers perform at the start of a procession to celebrate the Feast
of Mary Magdalene in the northern Spanish village of Anguiano July 22,
2007. Eight local men on top of wooden stilts and dressed in brightly
colored shirts and petticoats escort a figure of Mary Magdalene spinning
down the cobbled streets of the village.The tradition has been handed
down from father to son for generations and is believed to have begun
when shepherds used stilts to traverse their flooded fields. [Reuters]

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