Doc read - Snake Catchers
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the snake catchers of Cuckoo Lou. We're drinking espresso in the villages. Only cafe photographs on the wall showed famous snakes and snake catchers from the past, and serpents lay coiled in pillow cases on the floor. It had been a difficult year, the men said. Spring came late to the mountains, and the snakes were slow to emerge from hibernation. Only in the last few days have the catching gone well. Tomorrow they will drape all the snakes they can muster on a statue of San Domenico de Sora, since Dominic, the patron saint of this hilltop village in the Abruzzi region of southern Italy. Then they will march the statue through the streets. The brass bands play on young women parade with snake shaped pastries on their heads. It is possibly the oldest festival in Europe, and certainly one of the strangest.