Spanish Baby Jumping Festival

In celebration of the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi, grown men leap over newborns, with full parental consent. Donning creepy, vaguely Elvis-like costumes and wielding whips , the men attempt to "cleanse" the babies of evil. Evidently, recklessly leaping over them is the best way to achieve this.
The town, Castillo de Murcia, has observed this strange practice (called El Colacho) since 1620, and any onlookers who seem to be in need of a quick exorcism are pulled into the "festival of near misses" , as well.
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