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Nothing makes people do crazier things than tradition.
TIL there is a holiday called “Punch Your Neighbor” Day where people meet up each year to punch each other to honor a “goddess” who’s believed to demand blood for a good harvest.A awesome traditional festivals and ceremonies that prove people will do just about any damned thing in the name of tradition.
Two Quechua women hold a fierce fight during celebrations of the Tinku Festival in Macha, Bolivia, on May 4. Tinku, an ancestral ritual that predates the Spanish conquest, consists of rival villages engaging in hand-to-hand combat that tradition says will secure richer, more prosperous crops in the coming year.
As a result many casual visitors have likely had this conversation on Tinku Festival day.
