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Where women engage in fist fights to call the rain

All the blood they spill during the fight is collected in buckets, and later used to plough and water their lands

Every year, in the month of May, women from the Nahua villages of Guerrero, Mexico, get together to beat the living daylights out of each other.

All the blood they spill during the fight is collected in buckets, and later used to plough and water their lands.

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