Festival of El Colacho in Castrillo de Murcia

Great read, @timr, thanks. The sad bit that jumped out at me is that the organizers had to import babies, because none were born in the village this year. Hard to imagine that the town will survive for very long. This is such a huge problem all over rural Spain — in Villaconejos on the Lana, the hospitalero Pepe told us no baby had been born in town for the last four years.

But back to the fiesta itself — so long as they don’t let the teens who have been drinking wine for hours on end jump over the babies, I think their safety is assured.