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Some "Tschaeggaettae", masked participants of the traditional carnival cortege, during the parade in the streets of the village of Blatten in the Loetschental valley, southwestern part of Switzerland, late Thursday, February 24, 2022. During this sinister carnival, about seventy Tschaeggaettae wear huge wooden masks and animal furs crowd the streets of the villages to scare the people in the Loetschental, a valley where this custom is still alive. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Steinmann)