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22-JAN-2009

_MG_4623.jpg

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kees524-Mar-2010 00:49
New Year's ceremony in a Yao Mien village. The participants get into a trance, and pick up the glowing embers of a woodfire, throw it about. Eventually, they will be stopped from getting hurt by the bystanders. The trance is a means of communicating with the spirits.
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