One of the strangest, and certainly the dirtiest festival in the world is Cascamorras festival held in spanish Granada. As some like to call it, a festival of mud and dirt are a clash between two villages that throwing mud, and a long tradition of several hundred years. It is a struggle to maintain the mud between residents of neighboring villages and bases Guadix.
Every year residents Baza, in Granada, paint themselves from head to toe in black and defend your beloved statue of the Virgin Mary of residence (Cascamorra) from the neighboring town of Guadix, which is focused on stealing it.