The festival in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain coincides every year with the eve of the Feast of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. According to tradition, revelers ride their horses through bonfires placed around the village to purify the animals with fire and smoke after receiving a blessing from a priest.
Those spanish are crazy.
Given horses great natural fear of fire, this (while photogenic) seems cruel.
Badass!
“So, this guy like animals? What should we do to celebrate?”
“I dunno… Maybe we could pretend like we were gonna light them on fire?”
That last photo is the most awesome shit ever. It’s like a movie poster for an angry Rambo horse.
That last pic if epic. It deserves to be meme’d.