Folk culture from around the world! Tell us about mysterious

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>>72678581

>>72678651
Tell us the story!

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>>72678672
They dress up like that for carnival.

>>72678737
I would love to see that. Hispanic customs like this definitely have a great atmosphere.

Every country from around the world is welcome here.

Don't forget to post music, too.

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>>72678772
They do, southern Galicia has a big carnival tradition. Each town has their own shit.

>>72678772
Have my favorite muiñeira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LZTSyjaaWE

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>>72678581
Maslenitsa, for exhample.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQFek_9UZNM

>>72679478
There's so much going on here, wish the UK was like that.

>>72679844
You have Guy Fawkes night, don't you?

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>>72678581
Despite their looks they're not part of a carnival, no one is sure of how they looked in pre-columbian times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhYvJCBYwc

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>>72680656
>Despite their looks they're not part of a carnival, no one is sure of how they looked in pre-columbian times.
same with this guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0lTQSbIvG0

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I'm from Paris, so there aren't many mysterious customs around. We have quite a few legends like the story of Saint Denis, classic urban legends like crocodiles in the sewers, famous ones like the story of the "Phantom of the Opera" creepy places like the catacombs, but that's pretty much it.

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>>72680728
Fortunately we still have some depictions of how Mayans dressed to fight. As part of a carnival some guys in Southern-Central Mexico still figh but as jaguars

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>>72680916

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>>72678581
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RbNMOL864v0

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Boojum is best known by his two great loves: a fondness of pretty girls and his desire for the precious gemstones found throughout Western North Carolina such as rubies, amethysts, emeralds, and sapphires. It is said that in the early 1900’s, it was not uncommon for women bathing in secluded mountain streams to find they were being watched by Boojum from beneath the camouflage of mountain laurels or rhododendron bushes. The startled women would quickly grab their belongings and run away. This often conjured up an angry pack of men from the surrounding area to hunt the Boojum down, but never was he caught. He most surely retreated to one of his many hidden caves in the Balsams where he lived and hoarded his collection of gemstones. Though it is rare for anyone to find his caves, he has created a unique way of protecting his jewels by storing them at the bottom of stone jugs. He then fills the jugs with”pert’nin juice” or what is most commonly known as moonshine. Even if a gem seeker should happen to find one of his many jugs, no self-respecting mountaineer would dare waste this coveted liquid by pouring it on the ground. They would drink the contents until empty which would then be followed by a long, deep sleep. Boojum would return in the meantime and retrieve his gems, leaving the thief with nothing but a splitting headache when he awoke.

Basically an 8 FT tall leprechaun type thing in the area.

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Scissor dance, was originally a dance in honor to the mountain gods in inca and pre-inca times, the interesting thing about this dance is that some moves resemble modern breakdance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NplEo7mPA