The Festival:
June 24
marks the observance of the feast day of Saint John the
Baptist. This is the day when dousing water on unwary
people is an excuse to engage in revelry.
However, in
Barangay
Bibiclat, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, hundreds of devotees of
the village's patron saint, John the Baptist, transform
themselves into "mud people" or literally "taong
putik."
Nobody knows exactly when the Taong Putik
Festival started.
