Zozobra!

 

What a fabulous festival!!! I just got back from my oldest son's wedding and had to tell everyone about Zozobra in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Oddly enough, since the 1960's it has been a fundraiser for Kaiwanas but was first celebrated in Sante Fe back in the 1920's. The whole idea is to put all the town's gloom, anxiety, troubles, etc into this 50 foot high animated puppet and burn the thing down ridding the town of all problems. I asked a local and they said about 100,000 people come- and are they ever in to this- all chanting "burn him, burn him". What a wonderful release - what a wonderful celebration. It is a must experience.