Have you heard of festival which participants attend in a coffin? Every year on 29th July a small Spanish town, Las Neves celebrates the unusual festival known as the Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme (Festival of the near death experience).
It’s a celebration for those people who have had a near death experience and lived to tell the tale. Those people who have had a near death experience have to attend the festival in a coffin.
Thousands of people fill the narrow streets on the day of Santa Maria to hear stories of the survivors. The relatives carry the coffins containing the loved ones to the small church where there is a shrine to the Virgin Santa Marta to hear the mass. After the mass is over, the procession then winds its way up to the local cemetery. The effigy of Santa Marta around the church follows the procession.
If you know Spanish, the festival is a wonderful place to hear stories and tales of the different near death experiences and although this is a slightly strange festival, you can have a good time. The festival provides a great opportunity to have good old chats about near-death-experience.
Source: Gadling
