Stilt dancers celebrate Mary Magdalene
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-23 09:20
Stilt dancers prepare to dance at the start of a procession to
celebrate the Feast of Mary Magdalene in the northern Spanish village of
Anguiano July 22, 2007. Eight local men on top of wooden stilts and dressed in
brightly colored shirts and petticoats escort a figure of Mary Magdalene
spinning down the cobbled streets of the village.The tradition has been handed
down from father to son for generations and is believed to have begun when
shepherds used stilts to traverse their flooded fields. [Reuters]
