From: The New York Times
Hearts Beat as One in a Daring Ritual
May 4, 2011
The New York Times:
For as long as anyone in the tiny Spanish village of San Pedro Manrique can remember, people there have been walking on fire.
They do it every June 23, at midnight, celebrating the summer solstice by crossing a 23-foot-long carpet of oak embers that have burned for hours before sizzling down to a glowing red. The event is full of pageantry and symbolism: processions with religious statues, trumpets sounding before each fire-walk, and three virgins (or, these days, three women who are unmarried).
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