Men dressed as wild animals or "Carantonas" walk towards the church during "Las Carantonas" festival in Acehuche, southeast Spain, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. With roots in pagan traditions of fertility that were incorporated into religious symbolism, the ancient festival currently marks Acehuche's patron, Saint Sebastian, whom the Catholic tradition considers a martyr of the early anti-Christian Romans. After the 2021 edition was canceled amid a strong surge in coronavirus cases, the festival went ahead in late January this year and under strict mask-wearing rules despite record numbers of infections across Spain fuelled by an ultra-contagion virus variant. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)