In Japan, the Nakizumo festival is held every year, where Japanese parents take their child to a temple, where they leave it to a sumo wrestler.
Then two sumo wrestlers, each with their baby in their arms, compete over whose baby can cry first and foremost. The tactics are i.a. shouting naki (meaning crying) repeatedly, loud noises, cutting face or rocking the baby back and forth.
In some tournaments, the referee wears a demon mask to scare the kids.
The tradition can be traced back 400 years and will, according to superstition, give the child strength and good health, but should also scare away evil spirits
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