Pray he doesn’t put a step wrong: Spanish ‘devil’ El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to ‘cleanse their spirits’

Pray he doesn’t put a step wrong: Spanish ‘devil’ El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to ‘cleanse their spirits’

There can’t be many parents around the world who would allow their babies to take part in such an event – but some are clearly willing to take the risk.
A man representing the devil, called El Colacho, today jumped over the one-year-olds in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos in northern Spain, in an annual festival dating back to 1621.
The Colacho represents the devil who takes away the evil from the babies as he jumps over them in the medieval religious custom that takes place to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi.


Pray he doesn't put a step wrong: Spanish 'devil' El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to 'cleanse their spirits'Pray he doesn't put a step wrong: Spanish 'devil' El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to 'cleanse their spirits'Pray he doesn't put a step wrong: Spanish 'devil' El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to 'cleanse their spirits'Pray he doesn't put a step wrong: Spanish 'devil' El Colacho takes leap of faith over one-year-old babies to 'cleanse their spirits'

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