Catholic devotees gather in rice paddies to cover their bodies with mud and dried banana leaves for the annual 'Taong Putik' festival honouring St. John the Baptist. Men, women and children smear mud ...

People walk in mud during an auction at the 56th annual mud sale to benefit the local fire department in Gordonville, Pa., Saturday, March 9, 2024. Mud sales are a relatively new tradition in the ...