International Festivals

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 11:00:52

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Corpus Christi Festival, Spain

Photograph by Israel L. Murillo/AP

A costumed man representing Satan and known as El Colacho leaps over babies in a centuries-old ritual meant to protect them from evil spirits. The Corpus Christi festival, held in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, honors the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Eucharist.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 11:01:16

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Ganesh Festival, India

Photograph by Gautam Singh/AP

The ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival pays homage to the popular elephant-headed Hindu god, who appears all over Mumbai in the form of some 200,000 decorative idols placed lovingly in the city’s public spaces and homes. The joyous celebration culminates when Ganesh’s large murti, or idols, and his devotees take a ceremonial swim in the Arabian Sea.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 11:01:28

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Feast of the Most Holy Black Nazarene, Philippines

Photograph by Aaron Favila/AP

Devotees mob a life-size image of Christ, the Black Nazarene, as it’s paraded through the streets of Manila. Each year the image draws tens of thousands of devotees, most of them barefoot, who hurl cloths to handlers in the hope that they will rub them on the Christ and throw them back. The faithful credit the 400-year-old statue with miraculous powers, perhaps due to its own incredible history. During a 1606 voyage from Mexico the ship carrying the image caught fire—but the statue survived, blackened.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 11:01:48

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Schleicherlaufen Festival, Austria

Photograph by Melissa Farlow

The streets of Telfs, Austria, are transformed into a mystical world of Schleicher (skulkers), wilden (savages), and other costumed creatures who parade through town once every five years for the Schleicherlaufen festival just before the beginning of Lent. Documented evidence of Schleicherlaufen dates to the 15th century, but the festival may well have older roots in the rituals of pre-Christian peoples in Austria’s Tyrol region.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 11:02:06

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Mardi Gras, Louisiana

Photograph by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

The bon temps always rouler during New Orleans’s Mardi Gras, even during this February 2006 celebration in a city recently ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Fat Tuesday offers Christians (and others) a final chance to party before the penitential season of Lent begins. In New Orleans collecting beads has been part of the celebration since parading krewes began tossing them to crowds in the 1920s.

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