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    2 days ago

    Mind your local laws regarding burning things out in the open. But i think it would be super cool if people started adopting this. I don’t know how similar the tradition is to the colombian one, but in ecuador the doll is called the “old year”. It’s stuffed with old newspaper and sawdust, clothed in old, unusable pants and shirt and wears a papier-mâché mask of whatever you want. It’s common to put a mask of a politician