Turnips Day or Día Nacional del Nabo in Spain

Farmers used to celebrate the arrival of August by eating turnips.

Complying with the annual tradition, a volunteer from the village dresses up in a costume of multicolored ribbons and a devilish protective mask with horns, about 40 kilos of costume. Hundreds of residents of Piornal, Cáceres, chase through the streets of the small town with a turnip blow to the protagonist of its big festival, 'Jarramplas', a human 'beast' to which they throw 18 tons of turnips, provided by local farmers. The origin of the festival, listed as a Festival of National Tourist Interest, is uncertain, but the local tourist office says that the figure of 'Jarramplas' represents a cattle thief.