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Photo: Carnival in Grenada
Photo: Carnival revelers
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Photograph by David Alan Harvey

On the island of Grenada, Carnival is celebrated in mid-August to avoid a conflict with the anniversary of its independence from Great Britain on February 7. Here, revelers with greased bodies and dead snakes play jab-jab, patois for Satan. The Evil One must be appeased before one can gain entry to heaven, says the street-theater script.

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