Saturday Carnival Festivities near Itea

Despite the continuing rain, Saturday after dinner we loaded onto the bus and traveled 15 minutes to the next town to see what carnival activities were still taking place.  Here is a short video of what we found.  Most people where elaborately dressed in animal skins, some fake and some real, with masks, wigs, hats, horns or painted faces. Some characters represented darkness or death, while others with cow bells and whistles represented goodness and life.  According to legend, their bells keep the evil spirits away and defeat darkness/winter to welcome light/spring. Most of our students were approached by dancers and received ceremonial painted black marks on their faces.