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Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece’s carnival

(4 Mar 2025) RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Distomo, Greece - 3 March 2025 1. Various of revellers, called 'Bell People', clad in sheep and goat skins with heavy hand-forged bronze bells chained to their waists, holding wooden staffs, parade in the streets 2. Various of revellers, some holding flares parade marking the end of carnival 3. Various of revellers, chanting carnival rhymes during their parade 4. Various of revellers dancing 5. Mid of Ioannis Stathas, Distomo Mayor, at carnival 6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Ioannis Stathas, Distomo Mayor: "We are here in the martyred, historical Distomo, we have here the custom of the Koudounaraioi, which on Clean Monday (beginning of Great Lent for the Greek Orthodox Church). It has been a pre-Christian event for three centuries, but which we continue from generation to generation and the people continues to come here and have a good time, as you saw." 7. Sign reading (in Greek): “Koudounaraioi” - or the “Bell People", pan down to sheep skin 8. Various of revellers getting ready 9. Giorgos Papaioannou, leader of the group, teaching revellers the chants 10. Bronze bells chained to a reveller's waist 11. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Giorgos Papaioannou, group leader: “We give society a jolt … and try to take away their misfortunes, their problems, to lift their spirits so they can feel something,” 12. Various of revellers getting ready 13. Various of 4-year old reveller, Panagiota Pergada, dressed as a “Koudounaraios” (Bell Person) 14. Various of revellers dancing 15. Various of revellers parading around bonfire 16. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Spyros Bellos, reveller:   "It's something unique, it's an experience we all have to live. They (the people that live this) will feel different inside, they will feel a liveliness, an aura.” 17. Various of people watching Bell People 18. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Vassiliki Pergada, reveller: “Everything was perfect, it’s awesome, the bells rang, they brought spring, it was amazing!” 19. Various of revellers marking the end of the carnival STORYLINE: The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain village of Distomo, the “Koudounaraioi” - or "Bell People” - transform themselves into half-human, half-beast revellers in a ritual dating back to pre-Christian times. Clad in sheep and goatskins with heavy hand-forged bronze bells chained to their waists, the Bell People danced through the streets of this red-roofed village, a two-hour drive northwest of Athens. The deafening clatter the dancers make and their profanity-filled chants as they bound around a fire in the main square are a wine-fuelled sonic assault. Hedonistic carnival traditions across the Greek heartland and islands trace back to the ecstatic processions in ancient times honouring Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility and revelry and were then, as now, a cultural pressure valve. “We give society a jolt … and try to take away their misfortunes, their problems, to lift their spirits so they can feel something,” said Giorgos Papaioannou, a 29-year-old aluminium plant worker known during carnival as president of Distomo’s Bell People. The ancient tradition practiced by farming communities to usher in spring was eventually incorporated into the Christian calendar. Monday marks the end of carnival and the start of Lent, a period of dietary restrictions and increased religious observance before Easter, which this year falls on April 20. Distomo is known to Greeks as a symbol of wartime hardship. AP video shot by Lefteris Pitarakis Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...