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09-Oct-2015 Tim Biehn

Jumping the Bulls

After a ceremony with the men of the tribe involving a phallic symbol, metal rings and chanting and prayers, the young jumper runs naked through an archway blessed for the occasion, leaps up on the first bull and quickly runs across all of the bulls, lands on the ground and turns back to do it again. In this case there were eight bulls. He must run back and forth four times in order to qualify. If he falls, the women whip him and he must wait another year and try again. Our young man was successful!

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