Some yearly festivals are inspired by religious or cultural rites, while others result from commercial experiments or boredom. The following festivals may leave you scratching your head.
Top 10 weird festivals in the world
1.Wife Carrying Festival, Finland:-
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In 1992, Wife-carrying, or Eukonkanto in Finnish, was born in Sonkajärvi, Finland. The tradition's actual beginnings are uncertain, although each narrative involves stealing in some way. Wife carrying is now done all over the world.
Participants can carry their spouses in several methods, such as piggyback, fireman's carry, or Estonian-style, which involves the woman hanging upside-down with her legs around her husband's shoulders. They drag her through a 253.5-meter course that is littered with hazards. The reward is determined by the weight of beer consumed by the wife.
2.Jump like a Baby Festival, Spain:-
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This holiday, known as El Colacho in Spain, takes place 60 days following Easter, on the feast of Corpus Christi. The Baby Jumping Festival is a baptismal rite in which babies born in the previous year are cleansed of their sins. The religious observance stems from the early 1600s. Men costumed in traditional "demonic" garb terrify the crowd before sprinting down the street and leaping over the newborns meticulously laid out on pillows. Although no accidents have been recorded, the Catholic hierarchy is opposed to the practice.
3.Cheese Rolling Festival, UK:-
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Every year, grown adults assemble in the village of Brockworth on a cold May day to pursue a rolling nine-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a steep hill. The fences are removed, the vegetation is trimmed, and the ground is scoured for stones and other dangerous objects before the race down Cooper's Hill begins. However, the race is still perilous for competitors and spectators.
Many people have been gravely hurt throughout the years due to the steepness and unevenness of the slope and the volume and speed of the cheese itself. This resulted in the departure of formal management in 2010. However, the residents are quite proud of their historical festival, which continues unabated to this day. Around 4,000 people attended the show in 2015.
4.International Freezing Festival, Canada:-
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The International Hair Freezing Contest, held each February in the Takhini Hot Pools in Canada's arctic territory of Yukon, is a pleasant winter festivity. Participants in the competition submerge their heads in hot water of the pools and then shape their locks as they freeze in the frigid air above to create frosty hairdos. During the competition, temperatures in the area might fall below -30° Celsius or -22° Fahrenheit. Winners are awarded a minor monetary prize.
5.Monkey Buffet Festival, Canada:-
Before you start thinking about how a monkey might taste, keep in mind that this is a monkey buffet. Every November, a feast of 4,000 kg of fruits, vegetables, cakes, and candies is presented to the local monkey population of roughly 2,000-3,000 in the Lopburi Province north of Bangkok.
Youths are costumed as monkeys do dances after the animals are given their reward. The event was founded in 1989 by a local businessman who saw this as a unique opportunity to boost tourism in Lopburi. It worked, fortunately for him and the animals.
6.Mud Festival, South Koria:-
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This yearly celebration takes place in Boryeong, a community 200 kilometers south of Seoul, in July. The festival is by no means historic; the first one was held in 1998, and it was originally designed as a marketing event for Boryeong mud cosmetics. The mud from the Boryeong mud flats is high in natural minerals and is used to produce cosmetics. The two-week promotional event is currently well-attended by both residents and visitors. A mud pool, mudslides, a mud prison, and mud skiing are among the highlights of the celebrations.
7.Burning Man Festival, USA:-
Every summer, a creative community gathers to build and demolish a city in the Nevada desert. In 1986 in San Francisco, California, Burning Man is both a philosophy and an event. Among the ideals held by the organization are ‘radical' inclusivity, self-reliance, self-expression, communal collaboration, decommodification, and others.
The community celebrates by uniting all of their particular abilities to produce beautiful sculptures, structures, performances, art, automobiles, and other works for everybody to enjoy. The ceremony concludes with the burning of a gigantic wooden figure, which has recently reached a height of 105 feet. After the event, festival-goers intend to leave no evidence of their presence by returning the environment to its original state.
8.Toe Westling Festival, USA:-
The World Toe Wrestling Championships are held in various locations worldwide, although the sport began in the 1970s in the village of Wetton, Staffordshire. It arose from the desire for the United Kingdom to establish its own championship in some sport.
Two people compete against one another in each bout, similar to arm wrestling, and the better of three wins. Only after a comprehensive toe checkup by a licensed nurse may players compete in the competition.
9.Tomato Throwing Festival, Spain:-
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Since 1945, when a noisy mob stole tomatoes from a vegetable booth and provoked a food fight, the Spanish Tomato Festival has been held yearly in August during a weeklong festival in Buol. In 2015, the hour-long tomato brawl consumed an estimated 145,000 kg of tomatoes.
Since 2013, La Tomatina has been a ticketed event with a limit of 20,000 people. Previously, up to 50,000 attendees were said to have participated in the food fight. Trucks hose down the streets after an hour of free-for-all tomato tossing, and many participants wash in the pool of "Los Peones."
10.Invisible Guitar Championship, Finland:-
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Since 1996, the Air Guitar World Championship has been hosted in Oulu, Finland, as part of the Oulu Music Video Festival. What began as a joke has evolved into a significant draw for the event. Participants must play air guitar on stage in two rounds of at least one minute each (one song chosen by the player and one by the organizer), they must play just air guitar (no drums, keyboard, etc.), and they are scored out of 6.0. The event's concept is simple: "Wars would stop, and all terrible things would go away if everyone just played air guitar."
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