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Burning of Judas
Figures of Judas, often stuffed with fireworks and made to look like local politicians, are hanged and burned in Holy Week.
About Burning of Judas
On Holy Saturday, and in some places Easter Sunday, communities in Latin America, Spain and Greece burn or explode an effigy of Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. The figures can be a devil or skeleton, and in Mexico papier-mâché Judases are painted by craftspeople, often as the villain of the year, and filled with firecrackers. The act is a mix of religious drama and social comment, a license to mock the powerful. In the Greek island of Corfu pots are thrown from windows on Holy Saturday, a custom with different local explanations. Anthropologists see the burning as a rite that expels the old year's ill and purifies the community.
Also part of it, and being written: Burning of Judas (The custom.), Judas Iscariot (The figure it targets.).
Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Burning of Judas" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.