Children dressed as Zarrons prepare to chase other children during the Zarron festival for children on May 17, 2017 in Almazan, Soria province, Spain. El Zarron of Almazan Festival is a shepherds tradition just over 200 hundred years old that honours Saint Pascual Bailon. On its origins shepherds founded a Saint Pascual Bailon brotherhood and started parading a figure representing their Saint around the village. El Zarron is a character that represents the shepherds and wears beard, a hat with vulture feathers and a sheep or fox tail and leather clothes. Members of the brotherhood throw sweets ahead of the procession, and the Zarron has to clear the way of young people with a “zambomba” attached to his stick. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
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