Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers prepare the towering Zozobra marionette for its annual burning at a city park in Santa Fe, N.M., on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.

For those of us who grew up in Santa Fe, N.M., there are few figures that loom larger than Zozobra. I mean that literally, as much as figuratively: The 50-foot-tall marionette is as familiar as Santa ...

The eerie chant that rises up from the heart of Fort Marcy Park at the annual burning of Zozobra is just one of the many festive sounds and sights associated with the ritual destruction of Old Man ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — High anxiety about White House politics, hurricane flooding and even the threat of nuclear war with North Korea is adding an extra spark to the annual burning of a giant, ghostly ...

For decades, residents in Santa Fe, N.M., have gathered to burn a massive puppet — but only after stuffing it with symbols of their woes. It's a... Long Before Burning Man, Zozobra Brought Fire And ...

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