Nigeria began the traditional hunting for bachelors

At the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Nigeria started in the traditional "hunting" for bachelors. In northern Nigeria, where one of the largest in the world community of Muslims / about 70 million people / who regularly turns old and exotic ritual combat convinced holostyakami.Kazhdy year at the end of Ramadan, a 40-year-old resident of the city of Kano in northern Nigeria's Sani Auvalu layer-in animal skins with amulets, takes a rope with a loop and goes to "hunt". He throws a loop at the bachelors and "arresting" them. Then leads to the city and calls to marry under the musical accompaniment of songs and drum solo, performed by an orchestra of volunteers. Last year he caught 14 bachelors - one day a spent Ramadan. "Running knot magic - is to throw her on the neck of a bachelor, and before the next Ramadan he will marry," - says Auvalu. His "clients", on the contrary, believe that all matter in the songs - they make fun of bachelors as "worthless vagabonds.