Baby Jumping Festival in Castillo de Murcia near Burgos.
Anyone who has a newborn addition to their family can bring their baby along to this festival known as the El Colacho. The festival itself is part of the celebrations held all over Spain for the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi and whilst at this particular time many other cities and towns have spectacular processions and a variety of other popular means of revelling and enjoying themselves, there is only one Baby Jumping Festival.
The babies are laid on the ground in swaddling clothes and adult males, dress as devils jump over the infants and this is suppose to cleanse them of all evil doings. Indeed, it is scary to watch.
Anyone who is not blessed with receiving this protection during their early childhood and has lived life looking over their shoulder waiting for bad things to happen or illness to strike can, in their adulthood, choose to take part in an exercise of jumping through fire on 21st December in Granada, known as the Hogueras. This is intended to protect them from illness.
The festival takes place on the first Sunday after Corpus Christi so its date will vary accordingly.
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