TOPSHOT - In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium bows before invoking spirits inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival. The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whiskey, part of an age old ritual to honour Myanmar's spirit guardian of drunkards and gamblers. Every year thousands of people pour into a small village southwest of Mandalay for a two-week festival, many packed into boats clutching bags of food and bedding or pulling up on rickety old bullock carts. / AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Gyrating dancers passed through the crowds, bowing to men in silk dresses with orchids in their hair, as the normally sleepy village of Taung Byone marked the start of the annual Spirit Festival in Myanmar with a flamboyant opening ceremony. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
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TOPSHOT - In this photo taken on March 7, 2017, a medium bows before invoking spirits inside a shrine in Shwe Ku Ni village during the Ko Gyi Kyaw Nat festival. The medium spins around in a frenzy of red and gold while glugging from a bottle of whiskey, part of an age old ritual to honour Myanmar's spirit guardian of drunkards and gamblers. Every year thousands of people pour into a small village southwest of Mandalay for a two-week festival, many packed into boats clutching bags of food and bedding or pulling up on rickety old bullock carts. / AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU (Photo credit should read YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images)
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