Ameland, a small island off the Netherlands has a crazy holiday-
-Sunneklaas. Masked men go out on the streets, blow horns, smash the ground with sticks, and do other stuff people rarely ever do. Women and minors can’t go out because they will be chased back home or get their asses beaten with sticks. Do they actually stay inside? What do you think? Journalists who tried to capture this ritual were brutally banished. Most of them are relieved of all of their recording material when they left the island. This is why there are hardly any moving images of Sunneklaas. Even on YouTube there are just a handful of videos, but you still wouldn’t know what the hell these people are doing.
It stems from a centuries-old pagan tradition where people tried to chase devils from their village. That’s why they sweep the streets and blow their horns.
