Here are four festivals from around the world you may not know about

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La Tomatina (Spain)

 

Celebrated in the Spanish town of Buñol typically on the last Wednesday of August each year, the festival involves people fighting with each other with, as you may have guessed, tomatoes.

 


2: Hadaka Matsuri (Japan)

 

Typically celebrated on the third Saturday of February each year, the festival of Hadaka Matsuri involved hundreds, if not thousands of men parading. The participants are scantily clad but never completely naked.

 


3: El Colacho (Spain)

The El Colacho festival is celebrated in Spain each year.

Individuals, dressed as the devil, typically in red or yellow clothing, run and jump over babies lying on a small mattress. The 500-year-old tradition is thought to guard the babies against illnesses and evil spirits in their lives.

 


 

4: Naki Sumo Baby Crying contest

The contest is organised each year in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo and involved Sumo wrestlers holding a babies and trying to make them cry, as loud as possible at times. Techniques used for that end include wearing scary masks and other similar behaviour. The crying babies are thought to drive away demons.