El Salvador’s Talcigüines: Whipping Sinners in Holy Week
On Monday, seventy devils whipped every person they encountered in the central square of an agricultural town in El Salvador to “punish” them for their sins, in a centuries-old Holy Week tradition. Those in charge of delivering the lashes are the “talcigüines,” devil-men in the Nahuatl language, who dressed in red robes and hoods dispense …
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