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"Tschaeggaettae" mask of the wood carver, Heinrich Rieder, in the village of Blatten in the Loetschental valley, southwestern part of Switzerland, late Thursday, February 12, 2015. During this sinister carnival, about one hundred Tschaeggaettae wearing huge wooden masks and animal furs crowd the streets of the villages to scare the people in the Loetschental, a valley where this custom is still alive. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Steinmann)