Revellers sling animal dung at each other at packed annual cow poo festival
dailystar.co.ukcow poo at one another to mark the end of a religious festival.Crowds in Gumatapura, India, celebrated the end of Diwali, the most important Hindu festival in the country, in the yearly festival.The event started yesterday afternoon where locals visited surrounding homes to collect cow manure ready to throw snowball-sized piles of mud at each other.They believe that whatever cows produce is sacred and purifying.The poo is brought back from the farms to the temple by a tractor and is blessed by a priest before being dumped in an open area ready for the ritual to begin.After the manure is dumped, men and boys prepare for the festival which is reportedly more than a hundred years old.Each year, people come to Gumatapura to attend the big event.
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