Stilt dancers celebrate Mary Magdalene
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-23 09:20
Stilt dancers perform 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]
