From rolling cheese in Gloucestershire to wife-carrying in Scandinavia, the world is full of quirky, colourful – and downright bizarre – events. This festival certainly rates up with the strangest!

The Baby Jumping Festival (El Colacho)

June each year around 11th to 12th

Castrillo de Murcia, Spain

Free

First staged in 1620, this strange event celebrating Corpus Christi has grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over a row of babies lying in the street.