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    Week in Pictures

    The best shots from the week that was

    Liz Sullivan
    <p>PHUKET, THAILAND &#8211; SEPTEMBER 29: Vegetarian festival devotees of Jui Tui shrine parade through the streets as firecrackers go off on September 29, 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. Ritual Vegetarianism in Phuket Island traces its roots back to the early 1800&#8217;s. The annual festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves and bring the community good luck. The ritualized mutilation is performed at a local Buddhist shrine under a trance-like state and is careful supervised. Borja Sanchez-Trillo/Getty Images</p>

    PHUKET, THAILAND – SEPTEMBER 29: Vegetarian festival devotees of Jui Tui shrine parade through the streets as firecrackers go off on September 29, 2014 in Phuket, Thailand. Ritual Vegetarianism in Phuket Island traces its roots back to the early 1800’s. The annual festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves and bring the community good luck. The ritualized mutilation is performed at a local Buddhist shrine under a trance-like state and is careful supervised. Borja Sanchez-Trillo/Getty Images

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