A member of the carnival group 'La Vijanera de Silio' poses during the traditional ancient festival in the town of Silio, northern Spain, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The festival, whose roots extend into the Middle Ages, was banned under the 20th-century dictatorship of Francisco Franco, a fervent Catholic whose regime persecuted this and other traditions of pagan origins. But a group of youths set out to restore the tradition in the early 1980s after the return to democracy in Spain. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)