21Da Shuhua
Da Shuhua is a traditional Molten Iron Throwing Festival in China originating around 500 years ago in-which blacksmiths throw heated iron into the air for fireworks-like effect.
22Kots Kaal Pato
There is a Mexican festival called Kots Kaal Pato that involves filling pinatas with live animals and beating them to death. The climax is ripping the head off of a live duck.
23Slinningsbålet
Each year during the Norwegian festival of Slinningsbålet, pallets are stacked several stories high and are burnt to set the record for the tallest bonfire.
24Festa Confederada
There is a town in Brazil named Santa Bárbara d'Oeste that has a large population of people descended from American Civil War soldiers who fled there after the war. They have an annual festival called the Festa Confederada, where southern activities take place. People dress as southerners, and Confederate flags are flown.
25Hop-tu-Naa
On the Isle of Man, children sing songs and carry lanterns made from turnips, while adults try to predict the future using ashes from the fire on 31st October during a festival called Hop-tu-Naa.
26International Highline Meeting festival
During the International Highline Meeting festival attendees spend most of their time strung up on tightropes stretched across the Italian Alps in Monte Piana.
27Merfest
The annual Merfest in North Carolina sees hundreds of people come together to celebrate being 'merfolk'. Attendees take workshops on underwater modeling and how to hold their breath, and also swim with Hannah Fraser, a professional mermaid and environmental activist.
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28Nalukataq festival
During the Nalukataq festival held by the Inupiat Eskimos, seal or walrus skin is used as a sort of trampoline. A group of people function as the springs of the trampoline and rhythmically pull on it so that the person standing on the skin is thrown up 20 feet in the air.
29Shakespeare Mas
Shakespeare Mas is a part of Grenadian carnival where participants recite from Shakespeare and beat each other over the head with sticks when they make mistakes.
30Burning Tar Barrel Festival
Each year on November 5th for reasons no one seems to remember anymore, the people of Devon, England, run through the streets with flaming barrels. It’s believed tar barrel burning may have once been used as a way of warding off evil as many fire-related British festivals take place around Halloween.
