Shikali Festival, Nepal. 尼泊爾

A woman holding a basket returns after offering prayers during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. Dressed with colourful clay masks, the mediums participate in dances while villagers offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities in the annual Shikali festival. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Children are silhouetted as they run along the hills during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Devotees holding sugarcane sticks run along a hill as part of a Shikali festival ritual at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A priest holding "Chirag", a traditional lamp, takes part during a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A medium prepares for a deity's procession during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A medium dressed as a deity jumps during a trance at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Devotees hold their umbrellas upside down to collect blessed rice sprinkled during a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A medium dressed as a deity jumps during a trance at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

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