Silvesterchlausen or New Year Mummers in traditional costumes celebrating New Year in Urnasch, Switzerland

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Urnasch, Switzerland - January 13, 2020: Silvesterchlausen is a unique winter festival with pagan roots, celebrated in a few towns in the Canton of Appenzell. Its part of the Silvesterchlausen tradition of greeting for the New Year. Silvesterchlausen or New Year’s Mummer (Chlaus in Swiss German) is a masked person taking part in Saint Sylvester's Day festivities in Appenzell, Switzerland, and thus contributing to maintain the Chlausen tradition

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Location: Urnasch, Switzerland
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