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Jarramplas, the people anger

Nobody really knows who he was, or when his legend began. It is said, maybe a cattle thief, or a mythological character. Truth is that every january 20th, as a promise to Saint Sebastian, a local dressed in a multicolored suit and a demonic mask of horse hairplume.Walks along the village icy streets, to the rythm of a drum and under a turnips avalanche. Thus fulfilling the unwritten tradition, were religious and pagan mingle so that it is difficult to distinguish were one begins and the other ends.
Until he collapses from exhaustion

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