The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

The Tartu Student Days festival

The Tartu Student Days festival

03.05.2024, Tartu. The Tartu Student Days spring festival. Mud Wrestling. Photo Margus Ansu, Tartu Postimees

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Day Of The Dead - Mexico

Relatives decorate the graves of their loved ones with mud sculptures during the Day of the Dead festival at the Pantheon of San Antonio Tecomitl in the Milpa Alta Mayor's Office in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 2, 2023. Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

Flooding strands thousands at Burning Man event site in Nevada

Flooding strands thousands at Burning Man event site in Nevada

Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2023, shows tents amid the mud after torrential rain during the annual Burning Man festival at the temporary settlement of Black Rock Desert, Nevada, the United States.

Flooding strands thousands at Burning Man event site in Nevada

Flooding strands thousands at Burning Man event site in Nevada

A vehicle is stuck in the mud on Sept. 2, 2023, after torrential rain during the annual Burning Man festival at the temporary settlement of Black Rock Desert, Nevada, the United States.

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

Annual equestrian event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

A horse and its rider attempt to get over a 2-meter-high mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2023, during a festival to pray for good harvests. The festival is said to date back to the 14th century, and it is believed the greater the number of times the horse makes it over the wall, the larger the crop yield in the region.

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

KUWANA, Japan - A horse and rider climb up a 2-meter steep mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2014, during a festival to pray for good harvests.

'Mud Festival' held in Kochi

'Mud Festival' held in Kochi

KOCHI, Japan - A young girl puts mud on a man's face during the "Doronko Matsuri" (Mud Festival) at the Wakamiya Hachimangu Shinto shrine in the city of Kochi on April 5, 2014. Participants of the festival wish for good health and a good harvest.

Pantu festival in Okinawa

Pantu festival in Okinawa

MIYAKO, Japan - A man disguised as a demon slaps mud on residents to bring them good health during the Pantu festival on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2011.

Mud festival held in Kochi for good harvest

Mud festival held in Kochi for good harvest

KOCHI, Japan - A girl puts mud on the face of a foreign man in a mud festival held in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, on April 5 prior to rice planting. Participants hoped for a good harvest and health.

Full Metal Village (2006)

Full Metal Village (2006)

Metal Fan Covered In Mud Film: Full Metal Village (Dokumentarfilm) De 2006, / Tv-Titel: 'Blasmusik Trifft Heavy Metal - Das Wacken Open Air Festival' Director: Sung Hyung Cho 02 October 2006 Date: 02 October 2006

Pantu festival in Okinawa

Pantu festival in Okinawa

MIYAKO, Japan - A man disguised as a demon slaps mud on residents to bring them good health during the Pantu festival on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2011. (Kyodo)

New coronavirus

New coronavirus

People take part in a traditional mud-painting festival in Kochi, western Japan, on April 4, 2020, wearing masks amid the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

New coronavirus

New coronavirus

People take part in a traditional mud-painting festival in Kochi, western Japan, on April 4, 2020, wearing masks amid the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Mud festival held in Kochi for good harvest

Mud festival held in Kochi for good harvest

KOCHI, Japan - A girl puts mud on the face of a foreign man in a mud festival held in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, on April 5 prior to rice planting. Participants hoped for a good harvest and health. (Kyodo)