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Manganeses De Le Polvorosa, Spain -- Spanish villagers chanted, "We
want the goat! We want the goat!" and a group of young people
complied, tossing a goat from a church belfry Saturday onto a tarp nearly
50 feet below.
The black-and-white goat named Loreley landed, legs splayted, apparently
unhurt. Onlookers cheered. Champagne flowed. And Loreley was carried
away.
In a few seconds this village's annualk goat-tossing ceremony was over.
No one knows quite how the ritual started, or when. Some say it began
with a priest who gave milk from his goat to the poor. One day the
goat fell from the tower and was caught in a blanket by grateful
villagers.
Some vow the ceremony had endured for centuries; others say it's been
just a few generations.