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The bell-ringing against storms

Bercianos del Páramo, El Páramo, León

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The bell-ringing against storms

Curiosity · Bercianos del Páramo, El Páramo, León

Image of Bercianos del Páramo, not of the place itself.

Every year on Saint Sylvester's day the Confraternity of the Santo Cristo chose a constable-bellringer whose task was to swing the hermitage's small bell without pause as soon as a storm was seen coming, to keep the hail off the crops.

Photo: Berjusa (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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