Picture laying your newborn on a mattress in the middle of a village street and watching a man in a red and yellow devil costume leap over them while the crowd cheers. This episode travels to Castrillo de Murcia in the Spanish province of Burgos to unpack El Colacho, the baby jumping festival that dates back to 1620, and explains why what looks like reckless endangerment is, to the families involved, a profound act of communal protection.

The conversation describes the sensory assault of the devil roaming the village with a whip and oversized castanets, the arrival of the Atabalero drummers that flips the spiritual power dynamic and sends him fleeing along the procession route, and the theology of the jump itself: the devil absorbing the babies' original sin and carrying it out of town. It then covers the Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacramen ...