China has just entered the Year of the Rooster, but a Spanish festival has featured the bird in a less celebratory manner. /Cesar Manso Photo

A man was seen riding on horseback trying to decapitate a dead rooster hung from a wire in Santo Domingo de Silos, near Burgos as part of XVIII Festival of the Chiefs. /Cesar Manso Photo

The tradition is a reenactment of the legend that locals saved the townsfolk from a Muslim invasion by simulating a fire. /Cesar Manso Photo

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