Las Tóras de Luzón, a captivating tradition in Guadalajara, Spain, features participants with blackened faces, achieved using soot and oil, as they parade through the streets with flaming torches. This ancient ritual, rooted in pre-Christian fertility rites, includes painting people's faces with their black-stained hands, symbolizing the burning away of the old to welcome the new season.

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