Warding off spirits
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( Reuters photo / March 9, 2011 ) Young men covered in oil and ash stand on a street in San Martin Tilcajete, near Oaxaca. The men paint themselves to ward off evil spirits in this century-old tradition during a festival before Lent and Ash Wednesday. |
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