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Men wearing sheepfur costumes with horns and masks prepare to paddle a boat across River Danube from an island to Mohacs, some 210 kms south of Budapest, to participate in the traditional carnival parade of the town 11 February 2018.The carnival parade of people dressed in similar costumes and frightening wooden masks, using various noisy wooden rattlers is traditionally held on the seventh weekend before Easter to drive away winter, and is a revival of a legend, which says the ethnic Croats crossed the river to ambush the Osmanli Turkish troops, who escaped in panic seeing the terrifying figures during the Turkish occupation of Hungary. (Photo by Tamas Soki/EPA/EFE)
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