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The Spaniards already boast some of the weirdest festivals in the world, such as the bull running of Pamplona and the world’s biggest tomato fight, but this one definitely tops the list.
The annual Jarramplas Festival in Piornal involves hundreds of villagers attacking a man dressed in a devils mask with 15,000 turnips. The best part? No-one really knows why.
A young man from the village is selected to be the 'Jarramplas' - the scape goat - and dresses up in a costume made from colourful strips of fabric, donning a devil-like mask with great horns and nose.
The Jarramplas then enters the streets, banging his drum to call out the villagers who gather in their hundreds with armfuls of turnips. They chase the Jarramplas around the village, continuously pelting him with the rock-hard root vegetables at every possible chance they get.
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