burning of King Vaval

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The burning of King Vaval is a symbolic ritual at the close of Guadeloupe’s Carnival, where an effigy embodying the spirit of the festivities and past year’s troubles is ceremonially destroyed to mark a communal renewal.

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Carnival in Guadeloupe ritual burning of King Vaval