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Bolas de Fuego (Fireball Festival)

Bolas de Fuego (Fireball Festival)

Bolas de Fuego (Fireball Festival)
JosephAdams from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
13.7167°N, 89.2500°W31 AUG 2027

Residents of Nejapa, El Salvador don skull masks and hurl flaming rag balls at each other in the streets, commemorating a 1658 volcanic eruption and the town's patron saint — a century-old tradition with no shortage of scorched eyebrows.

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