Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling Festival :

The origins of this ‘traditional’ event are somewhat murky but it has been held for at least 200 years at Cooper’s Hill near Gloucester in the Cotswolds. Participants chase a wheel of locally made Double Gloucester Cheese down the hill and the first person over the finish line wins the cheese! This is a notoriously dangerous event with the cheese reaching up to speeds of 70mph, which is fast enough to knock over and injure spectators.

The hill itself is steep and most participants find themselves rolling down the hill rather than running, which makes the event rather entertaining for spectators. Fans of this event are true diehards though. A group of paramedics and volunteers and a couple of ambulances are stationed at the bottom of the hill ready to carry the injured away to the hospital.

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Dressing the Dead - Ma 'Nene' :

 

In Toraja, South Sulawesi, the dead periodically rise and get a change of clothes before being returned to their graves. During the Ma’nene ritual, held every few years, families clean the graves and change the clothes of preserved ancestral remains in a show of respect and love. The Ma’nene ritual underlines the local belief that deceased relatives remain very much a part of the community.

Relatives open the casket of their grand mother Martha Bu'tu that was died 40 years ago during the Ma'nene' rite in Sesean mountain, Rinding Allo, North Toraja, South Sulawesi. The Ma'nene rite is a tradition to change the clothes of their relatives that is already death to show love from their living family. 

 

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