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Festivals from around the World A festival is a type of party to which everyone is invited. For thousands of years people have thrown festivals. Many of these feativals are connected to religious holidays. For example, Mardi Gras is a famous annual festival in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mardi Gras happens the week before Lent , a Christian holiday . During lent, people give up certain things, like eating their favorite foods, for a few weeks. Mardi Gras is their last chance to do the things they enjoy before Lent. People are permitted to eat and drink whatever they want during the week of Mardi Gras . They have parades in the streets. The entire city contributes to the fun . Many festivals are much stranger than Mardi Gras. In one city in Spain, there is a baby-Jumping festival! During this festival, people set their newborn babies down on the ground and men dressed as devils jump over them ! It is believed that the devils take the evil out of the babies . Some festivals don't have anything to do with religion . In Finland , they have a wife - carrying festival . Hundreds of years ago, men would sometimes steal the wives of men from other towns . Pedple don't do that anymore , so today they celebrate this tradition in a much sillier way : Men have to carry their wives through an obstacle course . The fastest racer wins ! Some festivals center around food . In Gilroy , California , there is a Garlic Festival . People at the garlic festival eat garlic ice cream , drink garlic soft drinks , and suck on garlic lollipops ! In New Zealand , they have a festival of strange foods . There you can eat such tasty treats as cricket stew , slug spaghetti , and boiled sheep's eyes . If you plan to go to this festival , you'd better have a heroic stomach !

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