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Alright! We just arrived Castrillo de Murcia in Spain it is a tiny tiny tiny town,
and today is probably the biggest day of the year in this spec on a map.
Yes because they are celebrating the festival El Colacho
and what we learned is that no one knows about it in Burgos, or Madrid
We asked because we were coming here to Spain for El Colacho
and everyone was like, What is El Colacho? They jump babies? And they would make a strange face.
Yeah, so in online there's very little information about this
festival, in English anyway, but it is basically a baby jumping festival.
This guy dressed as the devil "El Colacho" he's called and he jumps over the babies and
he supposed to cleanse them from sin, from disease, we really don't know much
about it, but it's going to start in 15 minutes.
Alright we are right beside the cathedral in Castrillo de Murcia, at the priests house. So what happens first,
apparently before the babies get jumped is El Colacho, the devil, comes out and
he comes down the stairs. He comes out the priests house, and all the local kids,
the boys mostly, yell insults at the devil to piss him off. Then the devil has
Castanets and a whip, and he chases the kids around the town whipping them
with this whip... Oops... here we go...
Hahaha, I just got whipped, right out of the door.
- Are you ready? - I'm ready!
- Shout things to the Colacho!
I'm going to tell him he's fat, his mother is ugly... what else can I say to the devil?
Alright. We're waiting front of the cathedral, we can hear the drums going on
the inside. You can see they've set up one, two, three, four, mattresses here.
There should be more around the city. We're going to take the same,
the devil's going to take the same route the devil's he did when we were getting whipped with the kids.
So there will be 2 Colachos I heard, two Devils coming out of the church, jumping over
these mattresses and continue to run around the city. The story says that
they've been banished. They've lost the war, the people have prayed to God, the
devil lost, and now he's fleeing from the cathedral. As he leaves he jumps over
the babies, and the babies are cleansed of disease and sin. That's the story.
Right now we're just baking in the heat. It's like 35 right now, Celsius, and we're
sweating but it should be any minute.
The party is now over. So El Colacho, what do you think? - Amazing!
- Amazing. It's beautiful how everybody's participating and everybody's so into it,
like nothing else matters. But this celebration where El Colacho is just one more character.
He's only one character, but in reality everyone is participating and doing something.
It is really beautiful how the town comes together and how the babies are protected and safe.
For all the village. In the celebration they respect them. It's a very pure feeling.
Yeah definitely. And one thing I understand that we
didn't exactly before we got here. Is that this is a four day festival.
The baby jumping is 20 minutes at the end of the last day so there's way more to the
entire festival than just grown men jumping over babies. That is a very small
piece. It is like the the end of the story.
They've banished the devil, the devil leaves and jumps over the babies and
cleanses them from illness and sin on the way out. So it is way way bigger than
just that one thing, that one shot you see on internet. And like Mariannela was
saying, the feeling is so beautiful and pure here. It's easy to judge it and say
oh it's terrible, and it's cruelty to children, but you see how much joy it
brings families and it's one of the biggest days of the kids lives and for
the parents to have their baby cleansed of sin and disease, it's actually
a beautiful thing, and they take such good care of the kids.
In this town, there's not a lot of babies
the babies that are here, well some of them, it's important to say come from other towns.
They come from Burgos, they come from other towns around the area,
because when the parents were babies, they participated in the festival.
So when they have children, those babies come here.
And therefor, they follow the tradition, generation after generation.
It is a very nice tradition, and the most touching thing
and they are still having it the same way it has always, like Felipe told us.
So! What do you guys think about El Colacho? Thumbs up? Thumbs Down?
I'm sure there will be both in this video.
Let us know in the comments please what you thought about and whether you would come,
whether you think it's a cool tradition. Experiences over Possessions
Kick the Grind. Catch you guys later.
You have to say peace.
Peace.