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A "Tschaeggaettae", a masked participant of the traditional carnival cortege, poses in the streets of the village of Blatten in the Loetschental valley, southwestern part of Switzerland, late Thursday, February 4, 2016. During this sinister carnival, about one hundred Tschaeggaettae wear 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)