In Mexico there exists a bizarre practice to mark Easter, Mexicans mark the Holy Saturday with a tradition in which Christians whip each other with the aim of ending old quarrels while remembering Christ’s suffering.
All along the streets of Mexico on Easter Sunday, Devout men and women and were whipping each other in a twist on tradition.
The normal practice is for hardcore Catholic faithful to parade through the streets flagellating themselves as an act of penitence as sinners and to mark the suffering of Christ.
But in Mexico, this seems to have been subverted into this odd practice of whipping one another instead.
Men in the Mexican town of Soltepec took to the streets on Saturday in a tradition that is supposed to cleanse the body of sin during Holy Week.
The tradition is believed to date back to the 16th century.