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