Prats de Mollo

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Prats de Mollo, France

Fete de l’Ours: Festival of the Bears

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white face barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking

To the unfamiliar, the "Festival of Bears" or Fete de l’Ours in Prats de Mollo, might at first appear to be A. the lost work of Mathew Barney, B. a highly offensive minstrel show, or C. madness.... »

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