The yearly festival known locally as "El Colacho" takes place during the village's religious feast of Corpus Christi. No concrete origin for the bizarre ritual exists, but it dates back to at least the early 1600s. During the holiday parents with children born during the previous year bring the little tikes out and place them in neat rows of pillows spaced out down a public street. Then, while the excited parents look on, men dressed in bright yellow costumes, and grotesque masks begin filing through the crowd, whipping bystanders with switches and generally terrorizing everyone. But this is all fun and games as the main event is when these "devils" run down the street jumping over the rows of babies like Olympic hurdlers. Once the little sinners have been jumped over they are considered absolved of man's original transgression, and they are sprinkled with rose petals before being taken away by their (likely very relieved) parents.