Sunday, 4 May 2014

Snakes Paraded in Italy at May Day Religious Celebration

In the Italian village of Cocullo in the Apennine Mountains, dozens of snakes were paraded during a traditional May Day religious celebration. Thirty non-venomous snakes were draped onto a statue of Saint Dominic in the yearly ritual to celebrate the saint's supposed healing powers. The statue was then paraded around a town square packed with thousands of people, where some held up more snakes captured in the weeks preceding the rite. The ...

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