Spain’s flour fight is the strangest festival in the world
In one of the strangest food fights we've seen, revellers in Ibi, Spain, pelt each other with flour, eggs and firecrackers.
The battle of “Enfarinats”, a flour fight during the Els Enfarinats festival takes place annually in December.
It is a part of celebrations related to the Day of Innocents – a biblical account of infanticide by Herod the Great.
The battle takes place between two groups, a group of married men called “Els Enfarinats” – who take control of the village for one day, pronouncing a whole host of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them – and another group called “La Oposicio” who try to restore order.
At the end of the day the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the village.
The festival has been celebrated since 1981 after the town of Ibi revived the tradition but the origins remain unknown.
To see some of the incredible images from the festival, scroll through the gallery above.
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First appeared on Stuff.co.nz. Image credit: David Ramos, Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Stuff.co.nz
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